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Saturday, May 15, 2010 - Rough River State Park, Falls of Rough KY

Land line, Lyndon KS, May 9, 2010
Land line, Lyndon KS, May 9, 2010

Night camp

Site 35 - Rough River State Park, Falls of Rough KY

Nights I've camped here

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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