Reading: Entertainment and Brain Exercises Sitting down with your favorite romance or murder mystery novel does more for you than entertainment. Enjoying the best chapter helps with brain connectivity, concentration and language understanding. Reading anything helps your brain in one way or another. Whether you are just skimming through the book or are very engaged in the book, your mind is working to improve. Getting involved with a good book may be better for you than you think. Finding something that piques your interest can be difficult, but it ultimately serves a good purpose. “Increased connectivity in other parts of the brain suggests that readers may experience “embodied semantics,” a process in which brain connectivity during thoughtful action mirrors connectivity that occurs during actual action. »(www.theatlantic.com). This Emory University study, along with many others, shows that the neural changes created by reading a book are associated with the physical sensations and movement systems in your brain. When reading a word like coffee, the connectivity in the central groove in you...