Could handwriting help you remember more?
| In the digital age, it’s easy to default to typing—but research shows that handwriting might be the better choice if you want to retain information. A new neuroscience study reveals that putting pen to paper activates more brain regions and improves memory formation than typing. Whether you’re taking notes in a meeting or jotting down a to-do list, the act of handwriting could give your brain a helpful boost. So, how often do you still write things down by hand? |
This research tells me one thing that I have been saying for decades “use it or loose it”. If we continually use a computer or some smart device we will eventually loose the use of that thing that we call a brain.
In my opinion, I have held to the story, that those that keep using or adding supplements to their diet will loose the function of allowing the body to produce these chemicals and or heal itself due to this lost functionality. It is the same with these devices that we use on a daily basis. We use a digital calculator every time we need to add or manipulate numbers, we are starting to no longer remember telephone numbers as we have a list of contacts on our phones, more and more people have stopped using a keyboard and are verbally interacting with their devices, treating them as friends.
What is this world really coming to? We are heading headlong into a world that is totally alien to what we are used to and will soon be the slaves to a digital world.