Ooh. Dissertation sounds interesting - you don't have an electronic copy kicking around anywhere, do you, that I might read?
I think in words, although (as mentioned above somewhere) when reading (good) fiction it's more like seeing a play or film or similar going on in my head. But when I'm talking myself I can kind of 'see' the words in my head as I speak them.
On the other hand, I have a very visual memory - if getting directions to a place, for example, a map is best, written directions OK, and verbal directions utterly useless. I can't handle spoken stuff at all well - I find it very difficult to concentrate on and virtually impossible to remember (this doesn't apply to conversations so much, because of the activity of taking part - lectures were utterly useless, though).
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I think in words, although (as mentioned above somewhere) when reading (good) fiction it's more like seeing a play or film or similar going on in my head. But when I'm talking myself I can kind of 'see' the words in my head as I speak them.
On the other hand, I have a very visual memory - if getting directions to a place, for example, a map is best, written directions OK, and verbal directions utterly useless. I can't handle spoken stuff at all well - I find it very difficult to concentrate on and virtually impossible to remember (this doesn't apply to conversations so much, because of the activity of taking part - lectures were utterly useless, though).