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Mankind’s principal means of interacting with his environment is visual. In teaching students, I sometimes encounter those who express themselves by saying “I hear what you’re telling me” or “I grasp that idea,” but most of the time the expression is “I see what you mean.” In fact, students who are principally auditory or tactile learners sometimes have real problems in dealing with engineering or scientific material that is presented in textbooks heavy with diagrams and graphs. Most of us learn visually. As age diminishes the acuity of our senses, we use eyeglasses commonly, hearing aids occasionally, and practically never any prosthetic aids for any of the remaining senses. The Chinese proverb that a picture is worth 1000 words probably underestimates.
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© 1990 Plenum Press, New York
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Russ, J.C. (1990). Introduction. In: Computer-Assisted Microscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0563-7_1
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