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[quote=Anonymous]"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom"

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945/full

"Our findings suggest that the spatiotemporal pattern from visual and proprioceptive information obtained through the precisely controlled hand movements when using a pen, contribute extensively to the brain’s connectivity patterns that promote 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."

They confuse observation of increased neuron activity with results (ie task performance), but luckily there are dozens of fairly rigorous papers that provide the results side: handwriting is much better for learning.

In any case, this demonstrates how, for equity, the local school administrations need to redouble their efforts to ban pencil and paper from the classroom.

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