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Touloumakos, Anna K.; Vlachou, Evangelia; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
The term learning styles (LS) describes the notion that individuals have a preferred modality of learning (i.e., vision, audition, or kinesthesis) and that matching instruction to this modality results in optimal learning. During the last decades, LS has received extensive criticism, yet they remain a virtual truism within education. One of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities, Adults, Sign Language
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Schneps, Matthew H.; Rose, L. Todd; Fischer, Kurt W. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2007
The central and peripheral visual fields are structurally segregated in the brain and are differentiated by their anatomical and functional characteristics. While the central field appears well suited for tasks such as visual search, the periphery is optimized for rapid processing over broad regions. People vary in their abilities to make use of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Visual Learning, Brain