快撿起你的筆頭來

Once you leave school, there’s rarely a need to write by hand. Work correspondence happens on computers, as does social networking. Except for the occasional grocery list, there’s no particular need to break out your messy handwriting; typing is so much more efficient, right? But there are proven benefits to writing by hand. Here are four reasons you should dust off that pen and paper:

一旦我們離開學(xué)校，其實就沒什么用手寫字的必要了。通常來說，人們的工作和社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)往往在電腦上完成。當(dāng)然了，除了生活中的雜貨清單、點菜單什么的，實在沒有必要暴露寫得像螃蟹爬一樣的字，難道電腦打字不更加高效嗎?但是，對于手寫，現(xiàn)在還有一些已經(jīng)被證明的優(yōu)點?；蛟S你該拂去塵封的紙筆上的灰塵了，下面就是手寫的四項好處。

1. IT ACTIVATES THE BRAIN.

1. 它能激活大腦

A 2012 study of children who couldn’t yet read found that writing letters by hand activated a circuit of neurons in the brain associated with reading. Tracing or typing the same letter, however, did not. This extra processing in the brain regions associated with literacy “may facilitate reading acquisition in young children,” the researchers write.

2012年，有一群人針對有閱讀障礙的孩子們做了一個調(diào)查，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)，手寫可以激活大腦中與閱讀相關(guān)的神經(jīng)回路;而在鍵盤上打字并沒有這樣的功能。

2. IT IMPROVES SPELLING.

2. 它會提升我們的拼寫能力

A 1990 study found that having kids write words out improved their spelling abilities compared to typing on a computer.

一項與1990年進行的實驗發(fā)現(xiàn)，相比于在電腦上打字，手寫更能提升孩子們的拼寫能力。

3. IT HELPS YOU REMEMBER.

3. 它能改善記憶

A 2014 study that compared the memories of university students who took handwritten notes to those who took notes on laptops found that writing longhand better helps you learn new information. Those who wrote out their notes processed more of what was being said during their lectures, probably because they had to condense information to keep up, rather than mindlessly type the speaker’s words verbatim. In subsequent tests, handwriters recalled information from the lectures better than typists.

一項2014年的研究比較了兩組大學(xué)生的記憶力。其中一組是喜歡用手寫筆記本的大學(xué)生，而另一組更喜歡用筆記本電腦。喜歡手寫的大學(xué)生通常能記住更多在講座上所說的東西，可能是因為他們需要壓縮理解信息來記錄筆記，而不是毫無意義地在電腦上逐字打下說過的話。在隨后的測試中，手寫組比打字組可以回憶出更多的講座內(nèi)容。

4. IT HELPS YOU THINK FASTER.

4. 它能幫你快速思考

In a 2009 study of elementary and middle school kids, students writing by hand were found to write more, and more quickly, than those who typed on a keyboard. “Children consistently did better writing with a pen when they wrote essays,” the study’s author, psychologist Virginia Berninger, said in a press release at the time.

在2009年一項針對小學(xué)生和初中生的研究中，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，相比喜歡打字的學(xué)生，那些喜歡用手寫字的學(xué)生會寫的更多、也寫的更快。如果學(xué)生們要寫小說的話，用鋼筆來完成的學(xué)生往往會做得更好。