Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> writes: > So do I, but that's not thinking in language. What about packing stuff > into a small space? What about comparing colors and what would look good > next to what else, or what's a good sequence of chords, or -- heck, > Steve, figuring out how to drum to a particular song? Do you figure THAT > verbally? I definitely don't figure color comparisons verbally. I only have the "guy" list of color names (I think it's a 16-color palette); and then overlaid on top of it the ability from years of photography and design play the ability to say "too much red in that" or "needs a little more green". I have no idea how I do that; I certainly don't see images of the colors in my head. For that matter, I seem to have a better color memory than most people -- I can pick things that work together from memory most of the time, I don't need to see them side by side. And again, it isn't based on mental images of the colors or objects. I hardly form mental images at all (maybe that's why I got into photography?). I'm one of the weird right-handed/left-eyed people. Not sure what that "means"; after all the brain sides map to visual field side (inverted as usual) rather than to eye. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info