News tagged with visual learners

Learning styles debunked

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you've pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And you're not alone— for ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 4

Visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain and vice versa

A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis?

As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 18