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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 9385856" data-attributes="member: 6750306">For me, retaining information, especially game rules, is something that contains both visual and somatic components (pun intended)... My mind tends to index information in rule books not primarily by chapter number or page numbers but by retaining a &quot;physical map&quot; of the book itself - by the time I've read a particular game rule enough times to learn it well, I can pick up that book without looking at it and open it up to within one or two pages of the one it's on.&nbsp;I can also tell you which facing of the physical page it's on and most of the time which paragraph you want: &quot;Find the chapter on Combat, flip three pages in, it's on the back of the last page you flipped, right-hand column, three quarters of the way down, second paragraph in that section...&quot;I'm often asked if I have some sort of &quot;photographic&quot; memory because, when recalling information to mind, it helps me to close my eyes and physically make the gestures of flipping through the book. Or, when remembering scenes/dialogue from a movie, I start by going to the mental representation of the shelves and stacks of my dvd collection and making the motions of sorting through them to find the film and rewinding/fastforwarding by making circular motions with my finger.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 9385856, member: 6750306"] For me, retaining information, especially game rules, is something that contains both visual and somatic components (pun intended)... My mind tends to index information in rule books not primarily by chapter number or page numbers but by retaining a "physical map" of the book itself - by the time I've read a particular game rule enough times to learn it well, I can pick up that book without looking at it and open it up to within one or two pages of the one it's on. I can also tell you which facing of the physical page it's on and most of the time which paragraph you want: "Find the chapter on Combat, flip three pages in, it's on the back of the last page you flipped, right-hand column, three quarters of the way down, second paragraph in that section..." I'm often asked if I have some sort of "photographic" memory because, when recalling information to mind, it helps me to close my eyes and physically make the gestures of flipping through the book. Or, when remembering scenes/dialogue from a movie, I start by going to the mental representation of the shelves and stacks of my dvd collection and making the motions of sorting through them to find the film and rewinding/fastforwarding by making circular motions with my finger. [/QUOTE]

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