CrowdScience listener Michael wants to know whether the brain responds differently if we listen to books instead of reading them. Do we retain information in the same way? And is there a difference between fiction and non-fiction? Anand Jagatia finds out whether curling up with a good book is better than putting on his headphones.

Contributors:

Professor Fatma Deniz, Technical University of Berlin
Professor Naomi Baron, American University, Washington DC
Professor Patrick Nunn, University of Sunshine Coast, Queensland
The Guesthouse Storytellers

Presenter: Anand Jagatia
Producer: Jo Glanville
Editor: Richard Collings
Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harrison
Studio manager: Andrew Garratt

(Photo: Senior man wearing headphones listening to an audiobook. Credit: pixdeluxe / Getty Images.)