A fascinating study, imho! Read the children the books!

When overwhelm creeps in I’ve often considered audio books for my kids, haven’t really gotten into that habit though.  We (kids) do have a habit of watching TV tho…must improve on that.

When children could see illustrations, language-network activity dropped a bit compared to the audio condition. Instead of only paying attention to the words, Hutton says, the children's understanding of the story was "scaffolded" by having the images as clues.

"Give them a picture and they have a cookie to work with," he explains. "With animation it's all dumped on them all at once and they don't have to do any of the work."

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51281/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-story