"The benefits of handwriting — though it's a disappearing skill — have been documented by lots of educational psychologists, who have found that handwriting engages parts of the brain that typing neglects, especially areas associated with memory formation. For these reasons, the arguments go, kids come up with more ideas when they're writing in cursive versus typing.
So, as French psychologist Stanislas Dehaene told The New York Times, you may want to step away from the keyboard.
"When we write, a unique neural circuit is automatically activated," he said. "There is a core recognition of the gesture in the written word, a sort of recognition by mental simulation in your brain, it seems that this circuit is contributing in unique ways we didn't realize.”
The result?
"Learning is made easier," he concluded.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/handwriting-helps-you-learn-2014-12#ixzz3PwOaA1m7
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