02-15-2024, 04:28 PM
[Here something I ran across earlier... I hesitated because I recalled an old haunt where I would have categorized this as an "education" topic.
But since it was originally reported in as a psychology topic I will place it here]
This is about the act of handwriting... as in, writing by hand.
The original source of this is a research paper entitled:
Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity
(Although it spawned an article in the Epoch Times and was also "aggregated" by Zero Hedge.)
As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain. Brain electrical activity was recorded in 36 university students as they were handwriting visually presented words using a digital pen and typewriting the words on a keyboard. Connectivity analyses were performed on EEG data recorded with a 256-channel sensor array. When writing by hand, brain connectivity patterns were far more elaborate than when typewriting on a keyboard, as shown by widespread theta/alpha connectivity coherence patterns between network hubs and nodes in parietal and central brain regions. Existing literature indicates that connectivity patterns in these brain areas and at such frequencies are crucial for memory formation and for encoding new information and, therefore, are beneficial for learning....
We urge that children, from an early age, must be exposed to handwriting activities in school to establish the neuronal connectivity patterns that provide the brain with optimal conditions for learning...
Now I know I may be preaching to the choir, as one who feels that the act of writing can be a fulfilling exercise; it bears noting that there is at least some evidence that the practice has scientifically verifiable benefits... especially to developing brains.
I was wondering about our extended families (people we know, friends, their children, etc.)
I have yet to find any kids in my area who don't know how to write... but are we in danger of that? Is that something, in this world of forms and submitted paperwork, that people are coming to the point of NOT being able to do unless it's online? It's seems possible now that you can dictate whatever you like verbally and have it appear as if you wrote it... but are we really there?
But since it was originally reported in as a psychology topic I will place it here]
This is about the act of handwriting... as in, writing by hand.
The original source of this is a research paper entitled:
Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity
(Although it spawned an article in the Epoch Times and was also "aggregated" by Zero Hedge.)
As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain. Brain electrical activity was recorded in 36 university students as they were handwriting visually presented words using a digital pen and typewriting the words on a keyboard. Connectivity analyses were performed on EEG data recorded with a 256-channel sensor array. When writing by hand, brain connectivity patterns were far more elaborate than when typewriting on a keyboard, as shown by widespread theta/alpha connectivity coherence patterns between network hubs and nodes in parietal and central brain regions. Existing literature indicates that connectivity patterns in these brain areas and at such frequencies are crucial for memory formation and for encoding new information and, therefore, are beneficial for learning....
We urge that children, from an early age, must be exposed to handwriting activities in school to establish the neuronal connectivity patterns that provide the brain with optimal conditions for learning...
Now I know I may be preaching to the choir, as one who feels that the act of writing can be a fulfilling exercise; it bears noting that there is at least some evidence that the practice has scientifically verifiable benefits... especially to developing brains.
I was wondering about our extended families (people we know, friends, their children, etc.)
I have yet to find any kids in my area who don't know how to write... but are we in danger of that? Is that something, in this world of forms and submitted paperwork, that people are coming to the point of NOT being able to do unless it's online? It's seems possible now that you can dictate whatever you like verbally and have it appear as if you wrote it... but are we really there?
