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Friday, March 6, 2009 - Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus NM

Rocks in the afternoon, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, February 25, 2009
Rocks in the afternoon, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, February 25, 2009

Night camp

Site 29 - Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus 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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