Eva Mª Marcos

No soy una, soy tres.Las letras de mi nombre: E= Escritora (me emociona crear) V= Vendedora (el Marketing 2.0 es mi locura) A= Apasionada (nada sin corazón)

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@Palomas_Alejand Y allí estaremos para aplaudirla. ¡Qué ganas! 😍

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@elia_barcelo Qué alegría porque estaré por allí. A ver si puedo ir a saludarte. Qué ilusión 😍

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

El cerebro que escribe a mano enciende toda la actividad neuronal. Absolutamente asombroso. Casi mágico.
👇🏻Léelo. Escribirás más de tu puño y letra.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@Palomas_Alejand @ElasticBooks Lo esperamos con los brazos abiertos 🥰

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

Al #escribir por encargo, avanzo junto a mi editora y eso convierte el viaje en un biplaza donde compartimos todo.
“A mí me gusta ese niño”, me dice revisando una escena. “Pero, Eva, ¿sabes que si entra a escondidas ha de morir, verdad?”. Gracias, Sara.
https://t.co/VOX4m5qyK6

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@LugarCinema Me encantó. No estoy de acuerdo con que ella sobreactúe. Encuentro que los dos aportan un enfoque humano increíble para generar empatía hacia la sordera. El detalle subjetivo de no escuchar, como ella, es brillante. Un ejercicio tierno, duro e impecable.

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@david_lrl Qué espectáculo y qué magia contagiosa. Vamoooos🙌🙌🙌

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@Palomas_Alejand @filmax @nacholacasa @SBAgenciaLiter @ElasticBooks @EdFlamboyant Se me ha puesto la piel de gallina. Qué ilusión ❤️

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@LugarCinema Me encantó Sorda. Necesaria, tierna, perfecta para ponerte en su piel, sentir ambos mundos. Muy, muy bien interpretada y taaan humana 😍

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@juanignaciofe Anotada queda. Viendo las otras recomendaciones, seguro que es un acierto. Gracias

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@jacksshadows Y que no pare esa súper racha. Que no es más que la semilla regada con esfuerzo 🙌🙌🙌

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@jacksshadows Qué pasada. Enhorabuena, Salva 🙌🙌🙌😘

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@Palomas_Alejand Contando los días. Qué ganas, Alejandro. Qué regalo tan hermoso para quienes amamos tus historias 😍

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@LugarCinema Una más que se une a la lista. Ese contraste maravilloso entre la pesadilla y la realidad donde todo es de diez: historia, actuaciones, maquillaje… y esa música. ¡Ay, esa nana! 😍

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

Y que estas noticias sigan sin ser el centro de las portadas. Difundamos #masinvestigacion #masdifusion

[Fernando H. Valls 🗞️ @FernandoHValls]

Para mí esta es, sin duda, la noticia del día. ¡Invirtamos en ciencia!

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@DrJoaquinMateu Te abrazo fuerte. Yo aún extraño a mi campanera. Hay que haber tenido la gran suerte de ser amados por un peludo para entendernos. Seguro que Paco te aguardará con paciencia allá donde esté.

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@Bibliomaniatico Lo amo. En libro y en película. ¿Cómo encerrar tanto sentimiento en unas páginas? De mis libros favoritos, sin duda.

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@jacksshadows Muy prometedora esa portada. Enhorabuena, Salva 🙌🙌🙌

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

@NicoleKaroli @Indie5051 Con esta empecé a llorar en la sala del cine en el minuto 2 y ya no paré hasta el final. Con ninguna otra he llorado tanto de tristeza y de alegría.

[Eva Mª Marcos @EvaMariaMarcos]

Siempre nos quedará Santa Rita. Aunque, lo confieso, @elia_barcelo no quiero separarme ni de ella ni de sus personajes. Última estación, invierno, allá vamos… #audiobook