From the Archives: Do People Think in Words or Pictures?

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This episode originally aired on 2/21/2020. New episodes coming soon.

Learn about whether people think in words or in pictures; why brussels sprouts really are tastier than they used to be; and why buying luxury items might make you feel like an impostor.

Whether People Think in Words or Pictures by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Alicia)

(2020). Twitter. https://twitter.com/KylePlantEmoji/status/1221713792913965061
Heavey, C. L., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2008). The phenomena of inner experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3), 798–810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2007.12.006
Pristine Inner Experience. (2020). Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pristine-inner-experience
Amit, E., Hoeflin, C., Hamzah, N., & Fedorenko, E. (2017). An asymmetrical relationship between verbal and visual thinking: Converging evidence from behavior and fMRI. NeuroImage, 152, 619–627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.029

Why Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now by Steffie Drucker

From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom. (2019, October 30). NPR.Org. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
Beck, A. (2019, November 7). It’s Not Your Imagination, Brussels Sprouts Really Do Taste Better Now. Better Homes & Gardens; Better Homes & Gardens. https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/
Pearson, H. (2006, September 18). Distaste for sprouts in the genes. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/news060918-1
Perman, A. (2011, November 1). The “brussels sprouts” gene: TAS2R38 | Anna Perman’s Genetic Spaghetti. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/nov/01/brussel-sprout-gene
Neuroscience for Kids - Bitter Taste Gene. (2003, July 15). Washington.edu. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bitter.html
Masur, L. (2019, December 26). The Top 10 Food Trends of the Entire Decade. Kitchn; Apartment Therapy, LLC. https://www.thekitchn.com/decade-food-trends-2010-2019-22973978

Luxury Buying Makes People Feel Fake by Kelsey Donk

Luxury consumption can fuel “impostor syndrome” among some buyers. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/bc-lcc122019.php
Wong, K. (2020, January 30). Why Your Designer Bag Is Making You Feel Worse. The Financial Diet. https://thefinancialdiet.com/luxury-consumer-imposter-syndrome/
Goor, D., Ordabayeva, N., Keinan, A., & Crener, S. (2019). The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption. Journal of Consumer Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucz044

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0:00.0	Hey it's Janice from Discovery. Curiosity Daily success over the years means we have an amazing archive to pull from.
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0:15.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity
0:20.6	com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:23.4	Today we'll answer a listener question about whether people think in words or pictures.
0:27.7	You'll also learn about why brussels sprouts really are tastier than they used to be,
0:31.6	and why buying luxury items might make you feel like an imposter.
0:35.1	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:37.5	We got a listener question from Alicia, who writes,
0:40.1	I heard that some people think in full sentences and have a narrative going in their thoughts,
0:44.4	while others just have abstract thoughts and have to translate them into words when they express them.
0:49.2	My thoughts are the narrative type, and it never occurred to me that there might be a different way that
0:53.4	thoughts are experienced. Is it true? How common is each type of thinker? Great question,
0:58.8	Alicia. Cody, when you have thoughts, like what form do they take?
1:02.3	I have no idea.
1:04.5	I know, it's really hard, right?
1:06.4	I mean, I think mostly in sentences,
1:08.8	but I also think in pictures.
1:10.5	Yeah, wow, that's a that's a kind of a deep question. I had never actually considered.
1:16.4	Yeah. Well, the research does show that most people don't know, so you are in good company,
1:21.0	but let's get into the science.
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