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  2. Ambigram - Wikipedia

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    The word ambigram was coined in 1983 by Douglas Hofstadter, an American scholar of cognitive science best known as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Gödel, Escher, Bach. [ 7 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is a neologism composed of the Latin prefix ambi- ("both") and the Greek suffix -gram ("drawing, writing").

  3. Hyperphantasia - Wikipedia

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    Hyperphantasia is the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery. [1] It is the opposite condition to aphantasia, where mental visual imagery is not present. [2] [3] The experience of hyperphantasia is more common than aphantasia [4] [5] and has been described as being "as vivid as real seeing". [4]

  4. Human brain - Wikipedia

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    The human brain is the central organ of the nervous system, and with the spinal cord, comprises the central nervous system. It consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. The brain controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sensory nervous system ...

  5. Language processing in the brain - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, a study that instructed patients with disconnected hemispheres (i.e., split-brain patients) to match spoken words to written words presented to the right or left hemifields, reported vocabulary in the right hemisphere that almost matches in size with the left hemisphere [111] (The right hemisphere vocabulary was equivalent to the ...

  6. Mental lexicon - Wikipedia

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    A model of the mental lexicon adapted from Stille et al. (2020) In the sample model of the mental lexicon pictured to the right, the mental lexicon is split into three parts under a hierarchical structure: the concept network (semantics), which is ranked above the lemma network (morphosyntax), which in turn is ranked above the phonological network.

  7. The Real Reason Designers Style Books Backwards on Shelves - AOL

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    Once you factor in how many books appear on the typical set of shelves—and the back-and-forth necessary to clear the rights, compounded by the tight turnarounds of TV shows—it becomes a whole ...

  8. ‘Brain rot’ is Oxford’s Word of the Year for 2024 - AOL

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    Brain rot, a 170-year-old concept that has taken on new meaning in the social media age, is the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024. Oxford University Press, the publisher of the Oxford English ...

  9. Biblioracle: What’s the opposite of comfort food books? These ...

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    A couple of weeks back I wrote about being drawn toward ”comfort food” reads, books rooted in regular folks attempting to be decent to each other but running into trouble because we are all ...