OP’s an ass, but reading is a very different sort of stimulation, and I think reading is more valuable to one’s brain health. Some can’t read and derive enjoyment, and that’s fine, but reading is nonetheless helpful to stimulate that part of our brains.
If you’re misinterpreting my usage of “stimulation” as “enjoyment” or “engagement”, which you were, by the looks, then those are feelings.
If you were interpreting me accurately, and yet still dispute the fact that reading is magnitudes more engaging cognitively, and that the original post was about cognitive decline, which cannot be fixed with a stopgap like audiobooks? Then you’re an idiot. Plain and simple.
So you’re saying stimulation is being misrepresented as engagement; then in the next paragraph says, “reading is magnitudes more engaging” to support your argument about stimulation? Or is my cognitively addled brain misreading your comment?
Instead of name-calling, which is usually a sign someone has no good argument, I’ll just drop a link to this paper that used fMRI to scan the brain when presented with information in either audio or written form.
although the representation of semantic information in the human brain is quite complex, the semantic representations evoked by listening versus reading are almost identical.
Thank you for engaging like a mature adult.
EDIT: Or this one that shows that both activities simply activate different parts of the brain. And I would argue that brain activation is stimulation. Unless you’d like to present an alternative definition for stimulation?
None of your articles compare reading to listening. The two I linked show the brain activities involved during those two tasks. Brain activity is stimulation, no?
Who are you to tell me what does or does not stimulate ME?
OP’s an ass, but reading is a very different sort of stimulation, and I think reading is more valuable to one’s brain health. Some can’t read and derive enjoyment, and that’s fine, but reading is nonetheless helpful to stimulate that part of our brains.
I can see that, and if they hadn’t been a dipshit from the start acting all superior, I would have been far more receptive to their point.
Your feelings are not a factor in stimulation of the brain, dumbfuck.
You’re mostly right, but gods you’re an asshole. That working out for you?
Please note that I mention nothing about feelings.
Are you saying that listening does not require the brain? No language comprehension? No imagination? No critical thinking?
Or maybe they simply stimulate different parts of the brain? At different intensities, sure, but stimulation nonetheless?
If you’re misinterpreting my usage of “stimulation” as “enjoyment” or “engagement”, which you were, by the looks, then those are feelings.
If you were interpreting me accurately, and yet still dispute the fact that reading is magnitudes more engaging cognitively, and that the original post was about cognitive decline, which cannot be fixed with a stopgap like audiobooks? Then you’re an idiot. Plain and simple.
So you’re saying stimulation is being misrepresented as engagement; then in the next paragraph says, “reading is magnitudes more engaging” to support your argument about stimulation? Or is my cognitively addled brain misreading your comment?
Instead of name-calling, which is usually a sign someone has no good argument, I’ll just drop a link to this paper that used fMRI to scan the brain when presented with information in either audio or written form.
Thank you for engaging like a mature adult.
EDIT: Or this one that shows that both activities simply activate different parts of the brain. And I would argue that brain activation is stimulation. Unless you’d like to present an alternative definition for stimulation?
“engaging cognitively”, so that’s the first half of your point in shambles 🙄.
Also, I can do articles too,
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11303134/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5105607/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5105607/pdf/nihms805826.pdf
None of your articles compare reading to listening. The two I linked show the brain activities involved during those two tasks. Brain activity is stimulation, no?