The Paper Advantage: Why Reading Print Is Better for Your Brain

MY READ (pun intended): This only proves what I instinctively knew as true. I've seen this watching both my kids and grand kids develop. I also think this is major cause of kid's "failure to launch" and many living off their parents.

MY BOTTOM LINE: Modern tech and the internet is turning many in the younger generations into brain-dead zombies. They are have a tendency not to develop critical thinking needed to truly be successful and are quite susceptible to false entitlement and liberal "off the wall" ideology and fake news. However, like any tool used by man it in itself is not good or bad, but rather it becomes good/bad with the user. While there are many great critical points; below are those I want to emphasis:

CRITICAL POINT 1: Children with just one book at home are nearly twice as likely to meet literacy and numeracy standards as those without, regardless of income, education, or geography. Beyond developing basic literacy, physical books foster crucial parent–child interactions that build social-emotional and cognitive skills. These early advantages compound over time. Children growing up with access to books complete an average of three additional years of education compared with those without—potentially the difference between a university education and a high school diploma.

CRITICAL POINT 2: Findings from a paper published in the Social Psychology of Education show that while the number of print books in a home strongly predicts academic achievement, the number of e-books shows no similar correlation. These results point to what researchers have termed the “screen inferiority effect.” ..... The findings show that people who read on screens reliably score lower on comprehension tests than their peers reading the same text in print. Results highlight that the benefits of reading depend, at least in part, on the reading medium itself.

CRITICAL POINT 3: The Hypnotic Effect of Screen - children who spend more time reading books have greater connections between brain regions involved in language processing and cognitive control. In contrast, the children who spent more time using screen-based media demonstrated fewer connections between these same regions. These cortical alterations from screen exposure start early and may lead to underdevelopment in brain regions that underlie higher-order processes such as attention, memory, and social skills.

CRITICAL POINT 4: Screen Exposure Changes Behavior - “Unlike traditional reading, [digital] readers must simultaneously manage content comprehension while navigating through the text, making constant decisions about scrolling, and maintaining their place in the material,” Katzir told The Epoch Times. “This ‘split attention’ effect means our working memory juggles multiple tasks at once, potentially reducing our capacity for deep comprehension.”