Quora精選：閱讀對大腦有什麼影響？
What does reading books do to your brain?
讀書對你的大腦有什麼影響？
獲得6.6k好評的回答@Serena Nguyen：
Reading is food for the brain. Here are some ways our brain is altered:
閱讀是精神食糧。以下是大腦所受的幾點影響：
Rewires the brain: There was a study done in 2009 that showed that intense reading improvement instructions in young children can cause the brain to physically rewire itself.
大腦重新連接：2009年進行的一項研究表明青少年時期高強度的閱讀提高訓練能使大腦在結構上自我修復。
Improve attention span: We use our ‘working memory’ in our everyday life. Working memory refers to how we manipulate information stored in our short-term memory. Reading encourages us to think in sequence.
延長注意力集中時間：我們日常生活中利用的是工作記憶，指的是我們對儲存在短期記憶中的信息的處理方法。閱讀能鼓勵我們持續思考。
May cause changes in resting-state connectivity of the brain: Books can transport you to into the mind of the protagonist. Sometimes, we feel like we are in their shoes and there are studies showing that there can be a long lasting effect on the biology of your brain.
可能會改變大腦靜息狀態時的連接方式：書能將你代入主角的思想。有時我們感覺好像身處其中，有研究表明這對大腦的生物性有長期持久的影響。
Improves memory: Reading every day can slow down late-life cognitive decline and keeps the brains healthier.
改善記憶：每天堅持閱讀能減緩晚年認知能力下降的速度，使大腦更健康。
獲得3.3k好評的回答@Umar Draz：
Reading book opens one's mind. As I do listen audio books while driving, walking and in my free time, from audible mobile app.
讀書開拓思維。像我一樣，開車、走路、空閒時都聽手機應用軟件中的有聲讀物。
I was totally a different person before studying books. Now I see everything from a different prospective.
研究書本之前我完全是另外一個樣子。現在我看待一切事情的角度完全不一樣了。
Simple, reading habit will make your mind to see things, problems and matters from up to down instead of parallel view.
很簡單，閱讀習慣能使你形成從上到下全方位看待事物、問題和情況的思維，而不只是平行的視角。
Reading/listening new book always creates a new WOW in me that how ignorant I was earlier.
閱讀或聽新書總會給我帶來驚喜，讓我認識到自己以前多麼無知。
獲得5.6k好評的回答@Parveen Bawa：
I totally agree with most of the previous answers regarding effects of reading on the brain. It is a pleasure to read books. With a good book in your hand or on iPAD, you will never grumble getting stuck at an airport. For seniors, who cannot move much, reading a variety of books keeps the brain occupied with a good story and some of the travel books open the world for them. Children should be encouraged to develop reading habit for fun. It increases their concentration and vocabulary, opens up their imagination and if they are asked to tell that story to others, it improves their memory, speech and narration. Books are good sources of discussion.
對於閱讀對大腦的影響我完全贊同上面大多數回答。閱讀是一種樂趣，手裏或iPAD裏有一本好書，你滯留機場也絕對不會抱怨。對不能過多走動的老年人來說，讀各種書籍能使他們頭腦裏裝滿好故事，而且有些旅行書籍能爲他們打開世界之門。應該鼓勵孩子養成讀書的習慣並從中獲得樂趣，這能提高他們的專心程度和詞彙量並激發想象力，如果要求他們向別人講述那個故事，還能提高記憶力、語言表達和敘述能力，書是論述很好的來源。
（翻譯：菲菲）
