2024-02-15 12:01:30
On January 26, 2024, Norwegian researchers published the results of a study in the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychology. According to their research, this activity is the key to good brain health.
It’s not just our body that suffers the marks left by time, our brain also ages and cognitive changes can be observed once we reach the age of fifty, in particular. To preserve your brain health, however, there are a multitude of levers, whether for example regularly performing cognitive exercises or simply changing a few elements of your lifestyle. Sometimes it is enough to adopt a regular habit that does not require real effort to maintain good brain health in the long term. A point highlighted in particular by Norwegian researchers. On January 26, 2024, this team published the results of a study in the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychology, in which they identify a behavior that proves beneficial for brain health. According to the researchers, Taking handwritten notes is one of the keys to keeping your brain healthy.
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A revelation which may seem surprising but which deserves to be studied in an increasingly connected society where the majority of people use the keyboard of their phone or computer to take notes. Indeed, whether it is to make up your shopping list before going to the supermarket or to take a course, many people prefer a device for taking notes.
A behavior not recommended by scientists who indicate that taking handwritten notes “stimulates different and more complex brain connections, essential for encoding new information and forming memories”. In other words, taking notes by hand with a piece of paper and a pen is a way to stimulate the brain in a beneficial way. No need to write a multitude of pages in a notebook. In 2021, Japanese researchers revealed that a person who took handwritten notes on a calendar had greater brain activity than someone who used to write down their tasks using their smartphone.
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According to the study, those who wrote down their tasks by hand on a calendar were 25% faster than smartphone users at remembering the content of the note. These are not the only scientific works in this direction. In 2022, a study at an American university found that students who took handwritten notes performed significantly better than students who took typed notes.
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