Why handwriting helps memorize better than typing?

There is the fact that typing speed is much faster than our handwritten speed. But a new study has shown, it is the slower manual writing that will help us learn more effectively.

Going into the study of learning methods, recently two psychologists, Pam A. Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of the University of California, Los Angeles, conducted the research and came to conclusions. that, hand-writing will help you study more effectively.

Previously, psychologist Daniel M. Oppenheimer used to study the negative effects of using notebooks to record in classrooms. Using laptops in classrooms not only makes students / students more lazy to write, but also causes them to lose focus on lessons by actors like the Internet.

Research by two scientists has been verified in the laboratory as well as in the actual classroom, when comparing the learning ability of students hand-writing and using laptops. The results are surprising when the slower speed of manual recording helps the brain memorize lesson content faster.

Pam A. Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer's research can be understood simply as follows. If a professional typist attends classes, they can record almost every word the teacher says. However, this recording process does not require any thinking or memory for the brain. Therefore, when writing such notes, these typists almost did not participate in memorizing lesson information.

This is something scientifically proven. Without any link and you don't have any signal that this information is important to the brain, it will remove these lectures from memory for the benefit of the brain.

But when you have to take notes by hand, of course speed can't be fast. You cannot record everything the teacher says. Therefore, your brain will have to analyze, find valuable information, summarize concepts and ask questions about what you do not understand.

This requires more memorization than just typing that information out. And these efforts will help you remember the lesson more effectively.

Mueller and Oppenheimer concluded that: "for students, verbal writing is not as good as processing the lecture information and rearranging it in their own way."

Although handwriting is a skill that is gradually disappearing and replaced, its benefits have been acknowledged by many educational psychologists. These psychologists have shown that handwriting can directly participate in parts of the brain - especially the area associated with memory formation - that typing is ignored. For children, handwriting will bring more ideas.

What about you, how do you feel your memory ability when you have computers and Google?