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It's more that reading exercises specific parts of the brain. In particular it develops the anterior temporal lobe, responsible for associating and categorizing different types of information and the auditory cortex, that's correlated with better reading skills, becomes thicker since it's involved in phonological awareness in reading. Basically, reading is good for you.