It brought to mind this old thread, and it occurs to me that this is the ideal counterargument to those who posted (starting at #10) that they didn’t believe it was possible to literally visualize things mentally.
That was the thread that got me to start reading the message board regularly. I found it amazing that there was a way to think that didn’t involve visualization, that apparently there are people out there that can’t visualize at all, and that I was 20-something years old and didn’t know either of those things.
“New Scientist” recently did a story on visualisation. Some group of researchers reported a study where they were able to measure (??) the ability. I can’t find a direct reference, and I think I’ve given the magazine away.
I hadn’t read that thread, and I realized, to my surprise, that I’m actually not very good at visualisation at all. Like some of the others, I hadn’t realized that when some people “visualise” they actually get “vision”. If I had realized how poor I actually am at visualisation, I probably wouldn’t have put so much effort into trying to visualise semi-conductor physics.