People who read for fun have different brains. Here’s what to know

Better reading ability was linked to a larger anterior part of the temporal lobe in the left hemisphere compared to the right.

The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of U.K. adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 say they’ve never been readers, according to research by The Reading Agency.