Storytelling and listening are as old as mankind. The Professor explains that reading, from an evolutionary perspective, came later and uses processes in the brain that were already there from learning by listening. Reading with your eyes only adds the step of decoding the written letters. And for literate people, that is something that is basically automatic and doesn’t require much effort.
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