This is really fascinating. I’ve often wondered whether our brains process all forms of reading and learning in the same way, or whether the experience changes depending on what we’re doing—reading a novel, a news article, a comic, an e-book, listening to an audiobook, learning a language, or even learning to play an instrument.

It’s amazing to think that something as simple as reading words can involve vision, memory, imagination, emotions, language and even our past experiences, all working together. The brain really is an incredible thing.

I have a book called spirit in the net by Manfred Spitzer. It taught me a lot.
It’s in German but this is the original I found out just now:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262692366/the-mind-within-the-net/

It's a question that lomg fascinated me, too. Neuroscientists are able to map what volume of the brain is active in particular situations, but I don't know if they have reached much futher into what really happens in there, and how we remember so many different things.