Don't throw out your keyboards, but adding some writing by hand into our daily routines can increase insight, aid recall, and may protect against cognitive decline.
Regularly practicing handwriting may improve brain structure and function., an old family friend has begun visually journaling her travels. She isn’t an"artist," but that doesn’t diminish her joy in capturing her experiences or theand appeal of her sketches and musings. It was inspiring and I tucked it away as a good idea for later.
However, I had never considered the physical act of handwriting as a brain health/healthy aging activity. The greater brain activity from handwriting compared to typing is thought to explain why handwritten notes are linked to increased learning among students . Learning andare both cognitive functions. Learning describes how we gain new skills and knowledge. Memory is how we store and retrieve what we learn.
Computers make it easy to forego handwriting in favor of speed, the convenience of finding what you wrote again, and the ability to edit without rewriting. But as I reflect, I no longer write out checks, sign documents, or make grocery store lists by hand. With the rare exceptions of thank-you notes and condolence cards, almost all my correspondence is digital, not manual.
I've never been one to keep a journal, but I now wonder if the exclusive use of computers and the lack of handwriting practice is doing my brain a disservice by decreasing the activity of cortico-subcortical components of the writing network . My reliance on computers has certainly not done any favors for the legibility of my handwriting., and effort, but it may be time to actively integrate handwriting into some each day. It's OK to start small.
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