Nigeria, May 19 -- In 2024, Norwegian neuroscientist Audrey van der Meer and her team at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology published a study in the journal Frontiers in Psychology examining how the brain responds during handwriting and typing tasks.

The researchers recruited 36 university students and fitted each participant with a cap containing 256 EEG sensors to monitor brain activity. Words appeared on a screen one at a time. Participants either wrote the words by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen or typed the same words on a keyboard.

According to the study, those who wrote by hand showed broader communication across brain regions linked to memory, movement, sensory processing, and learning. But for those ...