Our daily goal is to make sense out of the world and sometimes that involves finding the meaning in what looks like chaos. Good thing our brains are amazing cyphers! Give this a try:
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Researchers are getting closer to understanding the brain process that leads to individual differences in how brains crack code and allow us to read in cases like those above but no one quite gets the whole picture yet. New research is focusing on how to use these differences to help people with dyslexia and other reading challenges. That would be big.
We are celebrating the importance of words today in this 5 difference, Find the Difference puzzle — one of our all time favorites!
Pay attention to how you solve this puzzle. How easy is it for you to over-ride your brain’s tendency to fill the meaning and over-look the differences?
Webster’s Dictionary was originally called the “American Dictionary of the English Language”. Today, the dictionary includes somewhere around 470,000 entries!
Cranium Crunches 