What makes handwriting different from typing in terms of memory recall, other than the fact that most, if not everyone, have written with pen and paper for far longer than typing?
Greater number of variables employed in creation. Any one of which could be a hook to remember by (___location on page, made a particularly nice letter, where my pencil broke, after the smudge, before/after my hand started to cramp).
Typing vs handwriting is like finding the right door in an unnumbered hotel vs a picturesque medieval town
>Any one of which could be a hook to remember by (___location on page, made a particularly nice letter, where my pencil broke, after the smudge, before/after my hand started to cramp).
I still don't get how that'd be any different. Location on a page corresponds with which notebook and section I may have taken notes down in OneNote, especially since you can also position notes all over the page.
There have been studies done with children that come to the same conclusion. For some reason, writing with pen and paper is better for recall. I don't know why, though.
In my experience it's everything--the scratchy pencil sensation dragging across the paper, cedar wood smell, that little curve at the end of letter e, ease of annotations anywhere on the paper, drawing arrows to connect pages because it doesn't fit in one page...
What makes handwriting different from typing in terms of memory recall, other than the fact that most, if not everyone, have written with pen and paper for far longer than typing?