Reading a good book has always been a great way to escape from the real world and jump into a fictional world. From the article “Study: Reading a Novel Changes Your Brain” by Julia Ryan, it seems that reading can make lifelong changes to your brain. Emory University did a study with fMRIs on 21 students, to see how the reading would affect their brains. As it turns out, the left temporal cortex of the brain (receptivity and language) is heightened by reading! Therefore, when you hear the word “running”, you may think of yourself as if you were actually running. They do not know how long this apparently lasts, but it is quite interesting! It is amazing how reading can affect our lives now. Of course, it has always been known to benefit us with
