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‘Do you see anything?’ Learning how to see and love distinctly
But there is a great consolation in being loved distinctly. And this love extends to the world around us: You may know the ...
What happens in the brain when there's a word 'on the tip of the tongue'?
We've all experienced it: you're in the middle of a conversation, searching for a word, a name, or a title, and… nothing. You know you know it—you can almost feel it—but it just won't come. This ...
The complicated question of how we determine who has an accent
How do you tell if someone has a particular accent? It might seem obvious: You hear someone pronounce words in a way that is ...
Learning to read without words
Staff Writer As Susie Mahowald stands in front of her first-grade class at St. John the Baptist Catholic School, she teaches them to spell and read without opening her mouth, ...