Audiobooks *are* reading. Many studies back it up. Visual text instead of audio works better for some people, but in terms of how our brains process the information, they’re almost identical. Here’s a place to start the rabbit hole: www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326... Do some research.

Listening and reading evoke almost identical brain activity

By constructing 3D semantic maps, scientists have shown that the brain activity of comprehension is largely similar for listening and reading.

Thanks for this 📌

I have. I have access to one of the best repositories of scientific research in the world This is a fairly solid study... but it is one piece of evidence. This is not a decided question (fMRI data is not entirely dispositive). It's pretty reasonable to still believe.evidence supports differences