Reading Books Enhance Your Brain

One of the researches says that reading books may enhance your brain. In their recent statements, scientists are advising people to read more because the activity not only brushes up the reader’s literacy skills and factual knowledge but it also acts like any tonic for the brain.

Clearing the advantages of reading other than the earlier known ones, Neuroscientist Ms. Susan Greenfield said that the activity of reading actually expand attention spans in kids and serve their brain with acute benefits.

"Stories have a beginning, a middle and an end - a structure that encourages our brains to think in sequence, to link cause, effect and significance," she says.

She explained that if the skill is learnt at a younger age, it helps polishing the brain of the child, which has more plasticity earlier. She suggested that it's important for parents to read to their children to serve them with all the explained benefits.

With more reading, a child learns how to enrich his relationships as he starts understanding other cultures too to enable him to learn to empathize with all the facts, the Daily Mail reports.

The ultimate benefits of reading upon a person’s brain were also confirmed by Mr. John Stein, emeritus professor of neuroscience at Magdalen College, Oxford. He explained that reading is an exercise for the whole brain and thus reading a story to a child helps development of his brain.

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