Apr 16, 2008 - Camped at City of Rocks State Park, Deming NM
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Night camp
Site 14, City of Rocks State Park, Deming, New Mexico
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.