by Sophie Adams in Music Psychology 

Why is it that people are happier to go along to a modern art gallery than attend a concert of similar…

By Alexander Baratta



Visual literacy may or may not be a term most people are familiar with but it is a skill which we all possess. 



Broadly speaking, being visually literate requires one to be able to decode visuals from many sources, from the everyday, such as understanding that a green traffic light means go, to the more complex, such as the skills required when analyzing an advertisement with its multiple layers of visuals, to include color, font size and style and the…

By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL

Published: February 4, 2012

Tufte-isms

The proponents of information design, present—and talk about—data efficiently

By PAUL MCFEDRIES  /  FEBRUARY 2012…

“A Review of the Concept of Visual Literacy” by Maria Avgerinou and John Ericson

This paper was written with the intention of clarifying the definition of the concept of Visual Literacy. Avgerinou and Ericson begin with the first definition of Visual Literacy offered by John Debes in 1969 and compare it to several other theories. According to Debes, Visual Literacy refers to a group of vision-competencies developed in a human by simultaneously seeing and integrating other sensory…

Written by Lindsay Dutton, MA CCC-SLP on January 27, 2012 — No…

Visual Learners

Making up about 65% of the population, visual learners absorb and recall information best by seeing. Some of their primary characteristics include:

• Love books, magazines, and other reading materials
• Relate best to written information, notes, diagrams, maps, graphs, flashcards, highlighters, charts, pictures computers.
• Like to have pen and paper handy
• Enjoy learning through visually appealing materials
• Feel frustrated…

Visual Learning

There is a saying in Japanese: 十人十色, ten people ten colors. I think that holds true for learners of a language, too. We are all a little different, so it makes sense that we learn things a little differently.

You’ve probably all heard of analytical learners, visual learners, auditory learners, or kinesthetic learners. Nobody is strongly one type of learner, but we are usually a mix of several types of learners in one. Some of us are 60% visual and…

How you take in and review information can determine IF you learn. For a long time, visual learners were at a disadvantage because so many of our learning resources were text-based . . . times have changed!

Editor's note: CNN contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."…