2006/02/01 by Gregory P. Krätzig, Katherine D. Arbuthnott · 4 citations
Psychology · #Learning Styles and Cognitive Differences #Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes #Creativity in Education and Neuroscience #Psychology #Style (visual arts) #Cognitive psychology #Test (biology) #Perception #Mathematics education #Perceptual learning #Statistical hypothesis testing #Statistics
paper · doi:10.1037/0022-0663.98.1.238
openalex publication_date 2006/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Given the potential importance of using modality preference with instruction, the authors tested whether learning style preference correlated with memory performance in each of 3 sensory modalities: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. In Study 1, participants completed objective measures of pictorial, auditory, and tactile learning and learning style self-assessments. The results indicate that objective test performance did not correlate with learning style preference. In Study 2, the authors examined in more detail the information participants used to answer the learning style self-assessment. The findings indicate that participants answered the inventory using general memories and beliefs rather than specific examples of learning in different modalities. These results challenge the hypothesis that individuals learn best with material presented in a particular sensory modality.