A team of Norwegian neuroscientists spent years mapping exactly what happens inside the brain when people pick up a pen versus tap a keyboard. Their study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, provides a detailed picture. Audrey van der Meer and her colleagues at the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory in Trondheim recruited 36 right-handed university students, fitted each with a cap holding 256 sensors, and recorded their brain activity while they wrote or typed ordinary words. When the s
