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Monday, March 30, 2009 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Buzzards Roost, Buzzard's Roost, Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009
Buzzards Roost, Buzzard's Roost, Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009

Today I moved a few miles north to the South Monticello Point campground at Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Elephant Butte NM.

Night camp

Site 31, South Monticello Point - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte 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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