Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity
Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945/full
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