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13 Post author: Dreaded_Anomaly 04 March 2011 04:17AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 March 2011 09:55:58AM 4 points [-]

I haven't heard of anyone else with the pattern you had for cooking, but I've heard more than one person say that they can't learn routes unless they're in charge of navigating. IIRC, one of them was a man who was the best navigator (serious about using maps, excellent long term memory for how to get to places he'd only gone to once) I've known.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 March 2011 10:12:44PM *  0 points [-]

I experience this not only with route-finding, but with nearly any activity requiring me to passively pay attention to an information source while in a group.