Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The study may not be new, but it's explosion on social media certainly is! Do our brains treat audiobooks the same as reading physical books? The internet says this study proves it so. And while the study has a lot of interesting things to say about audio versus physical input, as always with the internet, things get simplified in ways I don't always think are helpful. Let's talk about what the study did (and didn't) say today!

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00:00 - Overview of the viral post
01:10 - The actual study
03:12 - The participants (population)
04:45 - The methodology
07:23 - Why does it even matter?

Link to the study: jneurosci.org/content/39/39/7722#sec-2

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