Study: Reading and listening to stories stimulate the same brain areas

Unless you love to debate, Discover has wonderful news to share.

The magazine reports that a study originally published in the Journal of Neuroscience found no difference in the brain scans of readers versus listeners.

In other words: Listening to an audiobook counts just as much as reading a book. (So opinionated readers will have to fall back on whether ebooks are "real" books ...)

Read the more scientific version of the findings here.

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