Studies show that people remember things better when they write things out by hand rather than type on a keyboard—phone or desktop. But what about d

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Studies show that people remember things better when they write things out by hand rather than type on a keyboard—phone or desktop. But what about digital pens?

“In this study, 33 participants, some who were regular users of digital pens (familiar group) and some who were regular ink pen users (unfamiliar with digital pens group), were tasked to study foreign words. Each group spent ten minutes ‘writing’ the foreign word by typing on a keyboard, writing with a digital pen, and writing with an ink pen.

They were then assessed based on: 1) how many times they were able to ‘write’ the foreign word within the ten-minute learning period, 2) their mood after the writing exercise, 3) accuracy in a post-test where they were asked to write the local language equivalent of all the foreign words learned, and 4) by a computerized ‘true/false’ test where they indicated if the foreign and local words being presented matched in meaning while their brain wave activity was tracked.”

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