There is something about reading and in particular a story. If you read a text book or manual its different. With a story you visually look at the words and you don’t just take in the words but will also imagine the sound of the voices and the image of the scene and even smells. It sorta activates all parts of your brain in a way nothing else does quite as well. I would say its as valuable or maybe more than doing suduko or crosswords or some other puzzle type thing.
When you say reading "reading “sorta activates all parts of your brain” do you mean in the objective MRI sense or a personal romantic/mystical one?
When you say reading is more valuable than sudoku or crossword (I assume, for senile dementia?), do you say that based on your impression or on clinical data?
There is something about reading and in particular a story. If you read a text book or manual its different. With a story you visually look at the words and you don’t just take in the words but will also imagine the sound of the voices and the image of the scene and even smells. It sorta activates all parts of your brain in a way nothing else does quite as well. I would say its as valuable or maybe more than doing suduko or crosswords or some other puzzle type thing.
That’s very romantic.
When you say reading "reading “sorta activates all parts of your brain” do you mean in the objective MRI sense or a personal romantic/mystical one?
When you say reading is more valuable than sudoku or crossword (I assume, for senile dementia?), do you say that based on your impression or on clinical data?
its all opinion from my experience.