Listening to music activates representations of movement and social agents. Why? We test whether causal reasoning plays a role, and find that from childhood, people can intuitively reason about how musical sounds were generated, inferring the events and agents that caused the sounds. In Experiment 1 (N = 120, pre-registered), 6-year-old children…

This study examines the relationship between learning styles such as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic and academic performance in adolescent students. The objective is to determine whether a student's dominant learning style significantly influences achievement across subjects. Data were collected from 200 high school students (ages 14-18) who…

The present paper examines possible benefits of spatial audio guides on learning outcomes in the spatial learning setting of an experimental exhibition and attempts to differentiate between different mechanisms underlying such an effect. In Experiment 1, we examined whether the spatial contiguity principle may be such a mechanism. A spatial audio…