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 ...

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 ...

Connect words with images and find the name of the whatchamacallit on the tip of your tongue with Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary. The site is sort of like a reverse 20 questions (because you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prior to the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, little was known about Jannah beyond the fact that she led a group of warriors on horseback. However, one major leak hinted at a deep ...

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 ...

The brain holds a "visual dictionary" of words we have read, allowing quick recognition without sounding out words each time we see them, a new study finds. The research, presented today (Nov. 14) at ...