What is language actually good for?
Word of Mouth
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The Difference Between Overshadowing and Overwriting
Theory behind what's happening here is that the use of language kind of categorizes what we see. So when you describe what you've seen, in essence, what you're doing is discarding information from your own memory. And this leads later to the effect of actually being worse at remembering it. That's what i mean when i'm referring to over writingo in that literature it's referred to as verbal overshadowing Yes.
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