Your Brain on Fiction
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html
Really interesting to me that the act of reading actually triggers the very neurons that would be engaged if you were experiencing the same thing in real life. Perhaps this will serve as motivation to read to and watch movies with my boy.
While real life is never like the books, real life is never like any other substitute medium either. If reading story books helps young people develop social skills (though clearly they need to practice those stills in the real world), all the better reason to encourage them to dive in.
