Humans needs reading texts versus watching tv.
Reading text and watching TV engage different parts of the brain. While watching TV is a more passive activity that requires little effort from the brain, reading text is a complex cognitive process that involves several brain regions. The human brain has repurposed some of its specialized regions for object recognition to recognize letters and words. For example, just as we learn to recognize an apple by its roundness, a twiggy stem, and smooth skin, we also learn to recognize each letter by its particular arrangement of lines, curves, and hollow spaces. Researchers have also found that some of the earliest forms of writing, such as Sumerian cuneiform, began as characters shaped like the objects they represented. When reading text, the brain constructs a mental representation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure. This mental representation is likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain and man-made physical spaces. People often remember where in the text th...
