Dear Andy;-
   Probably not a shell comment. BUT, I find memory enhanced when fed by more than one sense. Frinstance, If I look up a phone number in the book; I can remember it a lot better if I say it out loud and remember what I heard. Sight and smell work well on food. Sight and touch on shells. Damn near nothing works on my mother-in-law.
     Art
>
> From: Andy Rindsberg <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2004/04/07 Wed AM 10:31:36 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Shells on my mind
>
> In the thread "RE: Stunning new Cowrie book - US Arrival Date," Emilio Jorge
> Power wrote,
> > It is always a pleasure to "hear" you write these messages.  I fully
> understand the excesses and will most probably be very  thankful to have a
> sensible reference for the Zoila.
>
> Emilio, it is interesting that you "hear" what you read. As any teacher
> knows, students take in knowledge in different ways. Some learn best by
> seeing a diagram or picture, others by listening, still others by reading.
> These abilities can be trained or developed, too. If one were in a
> speculative mood, one might ask what senses shell collectors tend to use --
> surely sight above all else, but we also have the example of Geerat Vermeij,
> who is skilled at identifying species by touch and heft.
>
> Do shell collectors think primarily in pictures? words? touch? That is, when
> you are thinking about shells, what's happening upstairs?
>
> Just to start things off: I often think in pictures but cannot ordinarily
> sustain an image for more than a fraction of a second; they appear, they
> vanish. More often, I think in words. As a child, I used to think more
> tactilely or kinaesthetically, and still do this when working out a problem
> that requires three dimensions. And emotional thoughts are often tagged with
> a line or two of evocative music, which surely must have been learned over a
> period of time. For shells: pictures, feel and heft, words all play a role,
> more or less in that order. For SHELLING, ah, that includes happy memories
> of places visited, with emotions and memories of feelings such as
> temperature as well as sights and sounds, but generally without many words.
>
> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> Geological Survey of Alabama
>
>
>

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