Kelly, that has never been a problem. I have never taken a working brain to an exam. G. Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/18/2004 12:36 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: about braille Guido, But if you can visualize the text of things you've read does that mean that using your brain on an exam would be considered cheating? <lol> I don't think in images at all, only sound and something I call "pure thought" for lack of a better term. One interesting quirk is that if someone tells me something and I recall it later I can almost never remember what language the person was speaking, unless of course I know they only speak one language. I sure wish I could do more with mental mapping and imagining tactile representations of things. It seems to me that an unusual number of blind people have some form of synesthesia. Has anyone heard of any studies about that? Kellie