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Do we remember as much if we listen to a book instead of reading it?
Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics, tells Anand Jagatia why we remember more when we read a book rather than listening to one. It鈥檚 partly because we鈥檙e much more likely to be doing other things while we鈥檙e listening or our mind starts wandering.
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