Can Comic Books Improve Brain Function?

Next time your kid picks up a comic book, don’t be so quick to assume it’s a waste of time. Because comics use both images, words, sound effects, color, spatial layouts, panel composition and more, researchers say these multimodal cues can stimulate similar processes to the human brain mapping the world around it. Thanks to the brain taking in multiple forms of stimulus, comic books directly activate the same cognitive processes as more advanced text comprehension. Read more HERE.