(THE CONVERSATION) Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create ...
Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it’s less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. After recording the brain activity of ...
How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...
In an era dominated by keyboards, voice notes and AI-generated text, one surprisingly powerful brain-boosting habit is writing by hand, which has quietly slipped out of daily life. Often dismissed as ...
Winners of a new Baltimore writing contest will help Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists learn what happens in the brain when people read stories. The inaugural fMRI Writing Prize, created by a ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Emily Ronay Johnston, University of California, Merced (THE CONVERSATION) Ordinary and ...