Viral study on audiobooks vs physical books: fact or fiction
The study may not be new, but it's explosion on social media certainly is! Do our brains treat audiobooks the same as reading physical books? The internet says this study proves it so. And while the study has a lot of interesting things to say about audio versus physical input, as always with the internet, things get simplified in ways I don't always think are helpful. Let's talk about what the study did (and didn't) say today! Chapters 00:00 - Overview of the viral post 01:10 - The actual study 03:12 - The participants (population) 04:45 - The methodology 07:23 - Why does it even matter? Link to the study: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/39/7722#sec-2 Socials www.instagram.com/bookborn.reviews
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