The painting 'Man Writing a Letter' by Gabriel Metsu (Wikimedia) July 5, 2016. ... Some words stretch into a nearly flat line, punctured by the occasional ascending or descending lines.

Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.

The typers would have to find the letter on the keyboard. The writers had to copy the letter with pen and paper. At the end, after as many as six sessions, everyone could recognize the letters and ...

The firm used software to plot the shape and motion of each letter, and has analysed a total of 868,496 characters from 113 countries at the time of writing. This was taken from more than 400,000 ...

One 2012 study even found that handwriting triggered activity in certain regions of the brain—areas responsible for reading and comprehension—where typing letters and copying words did not.