G'day G'day Folks,

Students sitting an electrical theory test were given an equation sheet. Usually these equations are printed on white paper. Yesterday I experimented using different colours for the equation sheet. The results were fairly dramatic. Before conducting the experiment I had entertained the hypothesis that pale mauve might be relaxing and hence beneficial for providing the right state for the test. In fact the spontaneous feedback from students was that this "put them to sleep" and they looked at the equations and went, "What's that equation." The colour most rapidly chosen and receiving the best feedback was a *bright* apple green. The comments on this was that the equations leapt out at them and they went, "I remember that equation. " The second preferred colour was *bright* yellow. Well so much of all the pastels, soft platinum etc

My current informal hypothesis is that a state useful for recall can be stimulated by the right choice of bright background colours.

I am not making any claim here that the results are in anyway general.
Other factors may well have influenced the results.

The room used for the test could do with brighter lighting.
Many students had no particular preference and thought it irrelevant.

One more reflective student preferred a pale cream, not bright.
I am fairly extrovert. Maybe this sets the tone of my classes.

All the students are male.

I would delighted if anyone on a.p.nlp has made similar observations on using external modification of visual submodalities instead of asking for changes in imagination.

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