Her team randomly assigned adult volunteers to three groups. But does one facilitate greater comprehension than the other? Beth Rogowsky, an associate professor of education at Bloomsburg University, sought to investigate this inquiry in a recent study. Reading and listening to a book may engage different brain pathways, he tells Mic, but most psycholinguists (they study language the psychological and neurobiological aspects that allow humans to process language) agree that the “mental machinery” involved in the higher-level understanding of a narrative, plot, and so on, is the same regardless of how you consume the book.įrom a neurological perspective, then, reading and listening to a book have quite a bit of overlap. Listening to an audiobook activates the brain network specialized for auditory processing, while reading a printed book activates the network involved in visual processing, explains Matthew Traxler, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. After reading printed books for so long, I worry that listening to audiobooks would feel way outside my comfort zone.īut is listening to books really all that different from reading them? In other words, do audiobooks “count” as reading? Experts say there’s no clear-cut answer, but you might consider opting for one medium over the other depending on what and why you’re reading, as well as your own personal preferences. Despite their popularity, though, I’ve just never felt compelled to go that direction. They swear by audio books, listening to them in the interstitial spaces of life - while driving or folding laundry, for instance - something they just can’t do with print or e-books.Īudio books have ranked as the fastest-growing book format since 2013, per the Association of American Publishers. But some members, who have equally busy lives, manage to finish every book on time. I often attend my beer and book club without quite having finished the month’s selection, or end up powering through the weekend before. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Like many adults these days, I struggle to find time to really immerse myself in a book. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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