But what those earlier readers didn't yet know was that all of that verbal reading offered additional benefits: It can boost the reader's mood and ability to recall. To reap the full benefits of reading, we should be doing it out loud, all the time, with everyone we know.
Reading aloud is a distinctive cognitive process, more complex than simply reading silently, speaking, or listening. Compared with reading silently, the hippocampus is more active while reading aloud, which might help explain why the latter is such an effective memory tool.
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