Handwriting boosts learning

According to Professor Audrey van der Meer:

national guidelines should be put into place to ensure that children receive at least a minimum of handwriting training.

Both studies were conducted using an EEG to track and record brain wave activity. The participants wore a hood with over 250 electrodes attached.

The results showed that the brain in both young adults and children is much more active when writing by hand than when typing on a keyboard.

"The use of pen and paper gives the brain more 'hooks' to hang your memories on. Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain.

I suspect this would replicate — but there should be a real exam, as brain activity alone is not 100pc conclusive in my view. It would be interesting to do such an experiment with say a history course or an economics course.