Comments on: The Alphabet Trick http://commadot.com/the-alphabet-trick/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-alphabet-trick UX = User Experience by Glen Lipka Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:42:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Glen Lipka http://commadot.com/the-alphabet-trick/#comment-14825 Glen Lipka Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:04:58 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=1929#comment-14825 @Jason: Do you have kids? All the kids I know stay in their pajamas for as long as they possibly can. Also, it's not universal knowledge. Lastly, thanks for contributing. Your comments are wonderful. Keep up the good work. @Jason: Do you have kids? All the kids I know stay in their pajamas for as long as they possibly can. Also, it’s not universal knowledge. Lastly, thanks for contributing. Your comments are wonderful. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Jason http://commadot.com/the-alphabet-trick/#comment-14824 Jason Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:09:45 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=1929#comment-14824 I'm gonna have to say glen, if your kids cant remember to put clothes on, you have some pretty stupid kids. My nephew at age 4 could put clothes on in the morning. If you are referring to children still in their infancy, then, your point is moot, of course they cant dress themselves. Furthermore this "trick" is universal knowledge. I cant think of a single person who wouldn't resort to phonically sounding out letters to find names of forgotten people. Hell this is basically a logical solution to the problem. Ground breaking stuff glen. Ground breaking stuff. I’m gonna have to say glen, if your kids cant remember to put clothes on, you have some pretty stupid kids. My nephew at age 4 could put clothes on in the morning. If you are referring to children still in their infancy, then, your point is moot, of course they cant dress themselves.

Furthermore this “trick” is universal knowledge. I cant think of a single person who wouldn’t resort to phonically sounding out letters to find names of forgotten people. Hell this is basically a logical solution to the problem. Ground breaking stuff glen. Ground breaking stuff.

]]> By: Glen Lipka http://commadot.com/the-alphabet-trick/#comment-13814 Glen Lipka Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:29:27 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=1929#comment-13814 Kids remember things by going through the alphabet? I have three kids. I can't get them to remember to put on their clothes in the morning. You must have smart kids. Kids remember things by going through the alphabet? I have three kids. I can’t get them to remember to put on their clothes in the morning. You must have smart kids.

]]> By: hsi http://commadot.com/the-alphabet-trick/#comment-13812 hsi Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:28:13 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=1929#comment-13812 well it's not that of a trick kids do it all the time what is a real trick? well it’s not that of a trick

kids do it all the time

what is a real trick?

]]> By: Dan http://commadot.com/the-alphabet-trick/#comment-13760 Dan Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:36:10 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=1929#comment-13760 I have been thinking more and more about how the brain works, and it is a little unnerving. For example, if you have an random itch, seemingly on your arms, whatever is causing the itch might not be on your arm at all. It just might be some kind of random electrical stimulus in your brain that is touching the nerve that controls your arm feelings. So it is really your brain that has the itch. And by scratching you are sending a new electrical signal to that same part of the brain that had the itch and maybe that distracts it from the itch. I also have been thinking about different streams of consciousness. I can have three different through processes at the same time (kinda in different voices in my head, although one voice is clearly the strongest), but I think there are even more streams, just I can't access/connect to them with one of the streams that is in my active conscious. I also heard an interview on NPR about Glia, which was fascinating. I think this will be my next non-fiction book, http://www.amazon.com/Other-Brain-Schizophrenia-Discoveries-Revolutionizing/dp/0743291417 Anyway, I think the alphabet trick is learned. I do it too (and our father before us). Whether we learned to file our memories according to the alphabet or we just do that naturally and were lucky enough to realize a way to easily access the information, I don't know. But I don't think it works for everyone. Just like people learn differently, people probably remember differently. However, it will be really interesting when brain scan technology can pinpoint thought and memories. I have been thinking more and more about how the brain works, and it is a little unnerving. For example, if you have an random itch, seemingly on your arms, whatever is causing the itch might not be on your arm at all. It just might be some kind of random electrical stimulus in your brain that is touching the nerve that controls your arm feelings. So it is really your brain that has the itch. And by scratching you are sending a new electrical signal to that same part of the brain that had the itch and maybe that distracts it from the itch. I also have been thinking about different streams of consciousness. I can have three different through processes at the same time (kinda in different voices in my head, although one voice is clearly the strongest), but I think there are even more streams, just I can’t access/connect to them with one of the streams that is in my active conscious. I also heard an interview on NPR about Glia, which was fascinating. I think this will be my next non-fiction book, http://www.amazon.com/Other-Brain-Schizophrenia-Discoveries-Revolutionizing/dp/0743291417

Anyway, I think the alphabet trick is learned. I do it too (and our father before us). Whether we learned to file our memories according to the alphabet or we just do that naturally and were lucky enough to realize a way to easily access the information, I don’t know. But I don’t think it works for everyone. Just like people learn differently, people probably remember differently. However, it will be really interesting when brain scan technology can pinpoint thought and memories.

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