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  2. Dolch word list - Wikipedia

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    These lists of words are still assigned for memorization in elementary schools in America and elsewhere. Although most of the 220 Dolch words are phonetic, children are sometimes told that they can't be "sounded out" using common sound-to-letter phonics patterns and have to be learned by sight; hence the alternative term, "sight word".

  3. Sound - Wikipedia

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    Sound is defined as "(a) Oscillation in pressure, stress, particle displacement, particle velocity, etc., propagated in a medium with internal forces (e.g., elastic or viscous), or the superposition of such propagated oscillation.

  4. Line of sight - Wikipedia

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    Non-line-of-sight propagation; Line-of-sight fire, shooting directly at a visible target on a relatively flat trajectory; Line-of-sight velocity, an object's speed straight towards or away from an observer; Line-of-sight double star, one in which two stars are only coincidentally close together as seen from Earth; Beyond visual line of sight

  5. At First Sight (1999 film) - Wikipedia

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    At First Sight is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Irwin Winkler and starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino. It is based on the essay "To See and Not See" in neurologist Oliver Sacks 's 1995 book An Anthropologist on Mars and inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings .

  6. Emission theory (vision) - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from System der visuellen Wahrnehmung beim Menschen (1687) depicting emission theory.. Emission theory or extramission theory (variants: extromission) or extromissionism is the proposal that visual perception is accomplished by eye beams emitted by the eyes.

  7. Theia - Wikipedia

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    Early accounts gave her a primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [4] She is thus the sister of the Titans (Oceanus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Coeus, Themis, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Cronus, and sometimes of Dione), the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Giants, the Meliae, the Erinyes, and is the half-sister of Aphrodite (in some versions ...

  8. Sensory nervous system - Wikipedia

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    The visual system and the somatosensory system are active even during resting state fMRI Activation and response in the sensory nervous system. The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information.

  9. Insight - Wikipedia

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    Example of a RAT problem. The first type of problem forces participants to use objects in a way they are not accustomed to (thus, breaking their functional fixedness).An example is the "Duncker candle problem", [8] in which people are given matches and a box of tacks and asked to find a way to attach a candle to the wall to light the room. [4]