ABSTRACT
The shuttle: experience and habit In Chapter 3 we saw some of the astonishing variety of memory patterns and learning styles that undergird all human activities, including translating and interpreting. We remember information and we remember how to perform actions. We remember facts and we remember feelings (and how we feel about certain facts). We remember things better in the context in which we learned them, and relevance or real-world applicability vastly improves our recall. We have
preferences for the contexts in which we learn things, the sensory channels through which we are exposed to them, how we process them, and how we respond to them. Some of these patterns and preferences work well with full conscious and analytical awareness of what we are doing; most of them operate most effectively subliminally, beneath our consciousness.
