Sunday, January 4, 2009 - Charlie's Transmission, Carlsbad NM
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View from above the staircase looking west, Devil's Hall trail, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, January 1, 2009
Night camp
Parking lot - Charlie's Transmission, Carlsbad 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.