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  2. Picture superiority effect - Wikipedia

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    Allan Paivio's dual-coding theory is a basis of picture superiority effect. Paivio claims that pictures have advantages over words with regards to coding and retrieval of stored memory because pictures are coded more easily and can be retrieved from symbolic mode, while the dual coding process using words is more difficult for both coding and retrieval.

  3. Speed reading - Wikipedia

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    Skimming is a process of speed reading that involves visually searching the sentences of a page for clues to the main idea or when reading an essay, it can mean reading the beginning and ending for summary information, then optionally the first sentence of each paragraph to quickly determine whether to seek still more detail, as determined by the questions or purpose of the reading.

  4. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Wikipedia

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    "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is a song by French duo Daft Punk, released on 13 October 2001 as the fourth single from their second studio album Discovery. A live version of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" was released as a single from the album Alive 2007 on 15 October 2007.

  5. Is it better to run faster or longer? Experts reveal which ...

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    Burns calories faster When you run faster, "the muscles tend to burn more calories per time, so you burn energy a little more," says McGrath. Additionally, the faster you run, the more ...

  6. Accelerating change - Wikipedia

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    According to Kurzweil, since the beginning of evolution, more complex life forms have been evolving exponentially faster, with shorter and shorter intervals between the emergence of radically new life forms, such as human beings, who have the capacity to engineer (i.e. intentionally design with efficiency) a new trait which replaces relatively ...

  7. Cats could be learning words faster than human babies, study ...

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    Previously, we didn’t know whether cats could learn human words in the same way as dogs, so Takagi and her team carried out an experiment that has been used to study language development in 14 ...

  8. Stronger (Kanye West song) - Wikipedia

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    The two went to a hotel and the DJ played "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" to West, who was insistent on sampling the track after taking a liking. A-Trak felt reluctant because of a 1990s "mentality in terms of sampling" for using unknown records, although retrospectively believed West's choice was correct and that culture had accelerated ...

  9. Word superiority effect - Wikipedia

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    In cognitive psychology, the word superiority effect (WSE) refers to the phenomenon that people have better recognition of letters presented within words as compared to isolated letters and to letters presented within nonword (orthographically illegal, unpronounceable letter array) strings. [1]