People who read a lot of fiction tend to have better cognitive skills, study finds
“This research project suggests that people who read a lot of fiction have better cognitive skills than people who read little or no fiction,” Wimmer told PsyPost. “These benefits are small in size across various cognitive skills, but of medium size for verbal and general cognitive abilities, for example, intelligence. Importantly, there is a stronger association between reading fiction and cognitive skills than between reading nonfiction and those skills.”
