pangloss comments on Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality - Less Wrong

63 Post author: pangloss 27 April 2009 11:39PM

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Comment author: pangloss 28 April 2009 08:50:19AM 1 point [-]

I mean, I don't know if "woody" or "dry" are the right words, in terms of whether they invoke the "correct" metaphors. But, the point is that if you have vocabulary that works, it can allow you to verbalize without undermining your underlying ability to recognize the wine.

I think the training the with vocabulary actually augments verbally mediated recall, not that it turns off the verbal center, but I'm not sure the vehicle by which it works.