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).
If you want to download a copy there are PDF, PS and RTF versions which you can check out. Note the RTF was a horrible kludge and some of the formatting and referencing is broken, I only put it there as a crappy option. These are available at http://www.barakta.org.uk/dissertation/.
I find that knowing I don't find pictures helpful is useful to me as a person cos I will make sure I have time to translate picture data into sections of word data. When I read a map I have to work out the directions as a sequence of instructions, I cannot instinctively read a map and in the past have been laughed at for being very slow. I am making myself do it more and more so that I can improve my ability to translate pictorial data to words in real time.
Oh and be warned the dissertation is about 8000 words for the main section and a further 5000 for the appendices. I hope my writing style isn't too awful (I don't write well).
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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).
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If you want to download a copy there are PDF, PS and RTF versions which you can check out. Note the RTF was a horrible kludge and some of the formatting and referencing is broken, I only put it there as a crappy option. These are available at http://www.barakta.org.uk/dissertation/.
I find that knowing I don't find pictures helpful is useful to me as a person cos I will make sure I have time to translate picture data into sections of word data. When I read a map I have to work out the directions as a sequence of instructions, I cannot instinctively read a map and in the past have been laughed at for being very slow. I am making myself do it more and more so that I can improve my ability to translate pictorial data to words in real time.
Oh and be warned the dissertation is about 8000 words for the main section and a further 5000 for the appendices. I hope my writing style isn't too awful (I don't write well).
Natalya