For those of us who spend most days in front of our computers, writing by hand has a number of psychological benefits, in addition to giving our eyes a needed rest from the glow of the screen.

Sponsor Message But giving up this slower ... For adults, one of the main benefits of writing by hand is that it simply forces us to slow down. During a meeting or lecture, it's possible to ...

And it's a good thing. While typing and digital files have been great in stemming a tide of paper waste, when used judiciously, writing things by hand has numerous benefits that we should not be ...

Yet, research shows that putting pen to paper offers cognitive benefits that digital tools ... The perks of writing by hand can partly be attributed to the engagement of multiple senses in the ...

Typing may be faster than writing by hand ... from things that they hand-wrote and what they typed.” Balasubramaniam said older adults might also see cognitive benefits from handwriting ...

A recent study in Frontiers in Psychology monitored brain activity in students taking notes and found that those writing by hand had higher levels of electrical activity across a wide range of ...

Activities like writing ... that a whole range of hands-on activities — such as knitting, gardening and coloring — are associated with cognitive and emotional benefits, including improvements ...

"It has important cognitive benefits." Writing by hand is usually a lot slower, but has some real benefits, van der Meer told NPR. If you're good at typing, you can basically transcribe a ...