Fact · Typing and writing speed
After adjusting for demographics, the correlations between typing speed and cognition were weaker but still pointed in the expected direction.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“After adjustment for demographics, the correlation magnitudes were attenuated but still generally in the expected directions.”
Functional and cognitive correlates of typing speed in a large U.S. panel study, Raymond Hernandez and Stefan Schneider, Scientific Reports, 2026, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1038/s41598-026-36500-7)- What it measures
- Demographics here include age, education and similar characteristics that also relate to typing and to cognition.
- What it does not show
- The adjustment reduces the links but does not remove them. The authors do not claim that typing causes differences in cognition.