I've been learning Chinese and this maps startlingly onto my experience w 漢字. My hypothesis has been that it's related to the same neurological phenomenon that makes the memory palace effective, aka memory is spatial and moving the hand is enough to trigger it

"Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity...typewriting do[es] not activate...networks the same way that handwriting does." https://t.co/euuHp4KlSU

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I've been learning Chinese and this maps startlingly onto my experience w 漢字. My hypothesis has been that it's related to the same neurological phenomenon that makes the memory palace effective, aka memory is spatial and moving the hand is enough to trigger it

https://x.com/prmshra/status/1862532036394983596?t=-2S2nmKPANzHcrDrdF3JKA&s=19

Made me curious whether there would be any correlation between left-handedness and adhd (being left handed sucks, and personally made me hate writing). Sure enough: https://search.arc.net/wxJkLyQTCcPghDcRwUZj

Almost 3 times as likely to be adhd…

“Left-handers may have decreased interhemispheric connections, affecting cognitive functions.”

While it’s surely not causative, I wonder how the cognitive effects of not writing a lot might affect or even exacerbate the experience of adhd.

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