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There is some evidence that reading or hearing a word evokes some of the same sensorimotor responses as encountering that to which the word refers. This might not be visual - it could be to do with any of the senses, or with the motor program for interacting with the referent. And it doesn't necessarily need to be conscious - in fact it usually isn't. A guy called Rolf Zwaan has done a lot of interesting work on the topic - you can get access to a lot of his papers here.
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I do always see the action, it's colored, but silent. Even when 'wind whistles', I see the character hearing it; but the sound is like unheard alarm clock - I *know* it must have been there when I slept. It stays word on the paper. Visualization is for me totally unvoluntary and I can't turn it off even if I wanted to, in whatever language I read - if I understand it, I see it.
When I'm thinking back to some book, I remember the pictures I visualized and overall feeling. But I think that I enjoy turn of phrase at least as much or even more. I laugh and feel with the story, but enyoy more *how* it is said. |
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this is merely poor education. when the so-called "poor" kids get more familiar and fluent with grammar, words, meaning, etc. they would be like normal readers; i.e., they just need to read more books, and make more (brain) connections between words and meanings. ....then their imagination will take over. |
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According to those who study neurolinguistics, some see in the memory or imagination, some hear, some feel, and some use all modes.
If I read a book and I've already seen the movie, as I read I hear and see the actor. I read The Treasure of the Sierra Madre a few weeks ago and saw and heard Humphrey Bogart and the others. The book, incidentally, is quite different than the movie and, in my opinion, much better. |
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Why is it screen writers seem to feel obligated to change the plot of books when writing for a movie? Most of the time, they make it worse! I've had what could have been otherwise good movies ruined for me because of the changes. Some movies (Inkheart and Confessions of a Shopaholic are two that pop to mind) have had the plots changed so much, they are unrecognizable. I can see shortening a storyline to make it fit but wholesale changes? Inexcusable!
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