Drawing is better than writing for memory retention

Friday, December 7, 2018 - 09:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Older adults who take up drawing could enhance their memory, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Waterloo found that even if people weren’t good at it, drawing, as a method to help retain new information, was better than re-writing notes, visualization exercises or passively looking at images. “We found that drawing […]

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