In an age of increasing technology, the possibility that typing on a keyboard will replace
handwriting raises questions about the future usefulness of handwriting skills. Here we …

Handwriting experience can have significant effects on the ability of young children to
recognize letters. Why handwriting has this facilitative effect and how this is accomplished …

Fast and accurate visual recognition of single characters is crucial for efficient reading. We
explored the possible contribution of writing memory to character recognition processes. We …

Although previous literature suggests that writing practice facilitates neural specialization for
letters, it is unclear if this facilitation is driven by the perceptual feedback from the act of …

Previous research has suggested that handwriting letters may be an important exerciser to
facilitate early letter understanding. Experimental studies to date, however, have not …

But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a relic of
the past. New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader …

A large body of data supports the view that movement plays a crucial role in letter
representation and suggests that handwriting contributes to the visual recognition of letters …

Despite the importance of handwriting for school readiness and early academic progress,
prior research on the development of handwriting has focused primarily on the product …

We examined the hypothesis that learning to write Chinese characters influences the brain's
reading network for characters. Students from a college Chinese class learned 30 …

Recent research has demonstrated that handwriting practice facilitates letter categorization
in young children. The present experiments investigated why handwriting practice facilitates …