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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been in theaters for a few weeks now but we've yet to get the answers to the Skywalker Saga finale's lingering questions we so desperately need. Thankfully, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we learn how to write, our brain does not learn the individual lettering of words - instead it is tuned to remember how the word appears as a whole. That's the finding of a new study that has ...