When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The brain holds a "visual dictionary" of words we have read, allowing quick recognition without ...

Understanding reading When we read, our brains are instantly able to recognise words because we have stored them in a 'visual dictionary', say researchers. Their findings, which are likely to be hotly ...

People have a lot of opinions about The Rise of Skywalker, good and bad, but one thing is absolutely certain: This thing is dense. There’s so much planet-hopping and myth-building, the film is ...

A new study finds that skilled readers do not rely on sounds when reading but rather retrieve words purely from a “visual dictionary.” The research, conducted by neuroscientists at Georgetown ...

Visual dictionary Experienced readers recognise whole words in much the same way we recognise a face, according to scientists who have observed the changes in brain scans that occur as a new word is ...

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The Visual Dictionary web site catalogs photographs of words (from signs to graffiti to tattoos) and makes them searchable by the word they contain. While it's still fairly young, the Visual ...

Sometimes a picture’s worth a thousand words. Maybe that’s why Merriam Webster has archived thousands of photos into a visual online dictionary. It contains more than 6,000 full-color images and ...

In the midst of the huge success of the Minecraft Movie, LEGO is letting fans in on their Minecraft story with the new LEGO Minecraft Visual Dictionary, a 160 page hardcover book that guides fans ...

When Star Wars met Lego 10 years ago, it seemed like just another licensing deal in Lucasfilm's endless chain of merchandising. But, the marriage produced an entire pocket universe all its own where ...

Unless you've been living in the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim near Ahch-To, maybe you've noticed everyone discussing the latest entry into the Cosmic Conflict collection. Star Wars: The Last Jedi ...

The uniquely human ability to read is the cornerstone of modern civilization, yet very little is understood about the effortless ability to derive meaning from written words. Scientists have now ...