How Handwriting Brain Work

Throughout history, a human being was always reliant on the primary sensory areas. An ability to communicate and contract languages is considered to be a unique ability of human nation as no other species show an equal amount of complexity in terms of the structure and sound combination. On the other hand, primary visual cortex provides a skill set in order to identify the objects presented in the world, the distance towards them as well as to design a set of actions in order to incorporate some items such as a stone or a pen. The understanding of these systems is crucial, especially for those who suffer from strokes and tumors and as a result lost the ability to visually recognize objects or hear other people. This work will focus of the structure

The section that I remember most clearly was section 9 Short-Time Writing: Use your Higher Brain. Dividing the role that our brain plays through the articles “Lower’ and “Higher” brain made a straightforward distinction to the way we process information under pressure. Facing timed essays or deadlines is one of the struggles I face while writing, making the foolish mistake to write as much as I can at a given time with no clear direction. Reid discussed the importance of knowing what to write before jumping ahead aimlessly. The lower brain is mistakenly used the moment you finished reading the question and dive straight into writing without deciphering the information or mapping out crucial information. The Higher brain should be properly

“I hate it, I hate it, I hate it” I used to tell my mom when she used to ask me to read or write. I remember at times when I had to go to school I used to cry and scream and just did not want to go. I used to get bad grades and couldn’t read and was not a fluent writer. I used to struggle and cry while I watched the other kids do it easily. While growing up reading and writing were my worst subjects and I used to hate them I struggled in them.

Once a visual learner sees and understands what is being expected of them to understand, they sometimes will have to write or draw it. If they are writing or taking

Students may easily lose their attention and concentration with easy access to such incredibly rich store of information. With such new technologies as television, internet and social networks, people nowadays tend to multitask more often as they have easy access to large amount of information. However, such easy access may sometimes be a distraction. Study report “Your Brain on Computers” shows that heavy multitaskers perform up to 20% worse on most tests compared to performance of light multitaskers. Working efficiency of people, who multitask, are claimed to be significantly lower. The same is with concentration. As a result, they are not engaged in working process. Students tend to be easily distracted with this situation. For example, combining doing homework with operating on Twitter, phone or YouTube results in poor engagement of a student into deep thinking process, according to Winifred Gallagher, who is the author of Rapt. He also points out that nowadays high school and college students have decreased capacity of serious thinking because of multitasking and distraction. Moreover, Tyler Cowen, economist and famous blogger, claims that nowadays information tends to come in shorter and smaller portions and that explains why our generation encourages short reading. Since online information is always presented in short written passages, the web prevents user from concentration and contemplation. As an illustration, Nicholas Carr, the speaker at MIT and Harvard,

In this lab, I observed four handwriting exemplars from four different suspects. Roughly a year ago, an unidentified male abducted a ten year old child from a prosperous, private, residential school. The unidentified male then sent a ransom note to the boy’s parents requesting a large amount of money to return their son safely. The authorities identified four male suspects and called me into analyze their handwriting exemplars. I started by using twelve characteristics to analyze the suspects handwriting. These characteristics include line quality, word and margin spacing, continuity of words, ratio of uppercase to lowercase letters, completion of letters, cursive writing, pen pressure, slant, words written on the line or not, curls and loops,

Although I may not remember much about learning to read, I do remember a little bit more about how I learned to write. I remember that my teacher had a chalk holder that held about four pieces of chalk. Each chalk was evenly spaced out so she could draw lines on the board to look like writing paper. We learned how to make our letters on the board. We used the big loose-leaf paper with the dotted lines in between the solid lines. She said we needed that kind of paper to make sure we wrote our letters right. There would already be a letter in the top left corner and I would just try my best to make my letters look like that one. We used the whole paper to do just one letter over and over again. We wrote our letters so much and so often that, that was when I first started to get a bump on my right middle finger. I used to hold the pencil so hard because I wanted my letters to be as good and dark as the example letter. I remember the letter that I had the biggest problem printing was the capital B. It always used to turn out looking weird. The letter that I loved writing was the S’s. I think I liked making the swirls going

Last week we wrote a blog and one of the questions was “How did you learn to read and write?”  I found this question interesting because I never had really thought about the moment when I actually learned how to read and write. My mom was the first person to expose me to reading and writing. A popular tactic she did to make sure I was staying engaged was to read aloud stories and make me follow along with her. My mom would read me many different stories like Tarzan, Bambi, Aladdin, Peter Pan, Lion King, The Jungle Book, and Hercules. whatever I wanted to listen and follow along with, she would read with me. This really helped with my want to read. The books contained a lot of adventure, which made it easy as a kid to follow along with. I became to gain an imagination and then all of a sudden reading was easier.

To develop reading comprehension many are taught at an early age to read and write basic letters and shapes. In a 2012 study conducted by Indiana University, psychologist Karin James tested a five year old children, who was not yet able to efficiently read or write, by asking them to reproduce a letter or shape in three different ways: drawn onto a blank sheet, traced over a dotted line, or typed on a computer. Results of the three test concluded through a MRI scan that was conducted while the tests occurred, that only while the children were drawing freehand that activation across the brain associated in adults with reading and writing occurred. Therefore in the development of a child’s reading comprehension freehand drawing is proven to aid in development greater than typing and tracing over dotted lines, which are both common ways in modern times used to teach children reading and writing. Using a digital media when developing a young child’s reading comprehension skills will then be less effective in the development as well as

“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” is what Governor Jimmy Carter said during his Inaugural Address on January 12, 1971, but it was not always true. In the texts, “Superman and Me,” by Sherman Alexie, and, “Learning to Read and Write,” by Frederick Douglass there are clear issues of racial discrimination between both authors, and there are also many other similarities and differences throughout Frederick and Sherman’s demanding upbringing, the most prominent are the main character’s obstacles, goals, and the situations the authors are in during their journey.

Suzi Allan sought help at her son’s school after hearing from his teacher that his handwriting needed some work. She was wondering when the kids would learn cursive writing and was told by the teacher that the school wasn’t offering it. Something needed to be done. Action was taken by Pam Roach, a state lawmaker in Washington, who tried to get a law passed that would require cursive to be taught in Washington schools, however it did not get voted on so it did not become a law.Schools should ensure that students value their education.(Seattle Times via Newsela).That’s why schools should teach cursive writing.

In both of these articles the authors discuss and give reason on why cursive writing should be taught in schools, and why cursive writing is obsolete. The author of "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool" believes that cursive is essential for making our brains more stronger and functional. The ways cursive helps, is that by writing things down by hand it helps us process material better and medical brain scans show that it also helps with "fine motor-skill development and stimulates both the right and left parts of the brain". People with brain injuries might lose the ability to read in write, but in some case were still able to read and write in cursive. The author of "Cursive Is a Twenty-First Century Dinosaur", believes that cursive being removed from the classrom isn't a big deal. Saying that a survey back in 2012 at a conference was given to a group of handwriting teacher by a lead researcher. Only 37% of the handwriting teachers wrote in cursive. "If handwriting teachers don't value cursive, then why should anyone"? He/she goes on by saying that cursive is virtually gone, with technology being the

In "Cursive Is a Powerful Brain Tool," the author made an excellent point about how much more helpful it is to take notes using cursive rather than typing. Personally, I only write by hand when I take notes because I can remember physically using my hand to make the notes, which helps me to remember the notes and the entire situation I was in when I made them. I was also surprised to learn about the medical benefits that come along with learning cursive. For instance, the use of cursive as a teaching tool for people who suffer from dyslexia.

In addition, the sensory neurons are responsible for responding to touch, sound, and light. Thus, the interneurons are responsible for integrating these signals and in return the motor neurons cause a muscle contraction. In this lab, we were able to become familiar with the visual and auditory processing. We were able to do this by determining the reaction time and correlation between visual versus auditory cues and also the reaction time and correlation between right-hand versus left-hand humans. Also, the program that was used to collect the visual and auditory cues was called iWorx physiology kit.

In a world driven by technology, it is easy to throw away learning methods of the past in favor of following up and coming trends. However, when it comes to writing by hand versus typing, the advantages to learning of writing by hand far outweigh the ease of use of typing. Through academic research of college note-takers and primary students as well as research on how the neuroscience behind hand writing works, it is proven that hand writing is superior to typing for learning.