This Is How Reading Rewires Your Brain, According to Neuroscience

This effect can literally be seen in your brain waves when you read. If a character in the book you’re reading is playing tennis, areas of your brain that would light up if you were physically out there on the court yourself are activated.

This renovation has left you with a specialized area in your left ventral occipital temporal region, shifted facial recognition into your right hemisphere, reduced your inclination toward holistic visual processing, increased your verbal memory, and thickened your corpus callosum, which is the information highway that connects the left and right hemispheres of your brain.

Reading isn’t just a way to cram facts into your brain. It’s a way to rewire how your brain works in general.