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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Sepia sunrise, Rockhound State Park, Deming NM, February 17, 2008
Sepia sunrise, Rockhound State Park, Deming NM, February 17, 2008

Tomorrow I'm moving to City of Rocks State Park

New Mexico State Parks limit ones stay to 3 weeks at which time one must leave the park for 6 nights before returning. But I don't plan to return to Rockhound on this trip. Later in the month I'll be visiting friends in Las Vegas so it's time to start drifting westward again. So I'll spend a few days at City of Rocks State Park, a few miles north of Deming, New Mexico, and then move on.

Night camp

Site 28 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Words Get in the Way

Research shows that language suppresses visual memory, This is called verbal overshadowing and is a well-established phenomenon .... For example, in one study people watched a short videotape of a bank robbery, then spent twenty minutes doing something unrelated. Then one group spent five minutes writing down everything they could remember about the bank robber's face, while the other group did an unrelated task.

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