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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM

Saving face, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 8, 2008.
Saving face, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 8, 2008.

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Site 12 - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood 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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