loves2spooge said:
This is a rather redundant question, it's dependant on what you're learning, and the vast majority of the time you don't actually realise how you're taking things in. Like with learning a song on guitar, it's part sight (reading music) listening (to the original source) AND touch, because you're applying your own dexterous technique.
In other words, everyone learns everything through all senses, but learn certain things through selective senses required to take in information... this question's waaay too open.
I asked this question because although everyone has, to a degree, the ability to
intake knowledge via all the senses (unless one is disabled in some way), the
learning aspect varies greatly from person to person. For example, when I learned to play a musical instrument, I found that listening to another person play the same song on the same instrument meant nothing to me - nothing. Even now, when I play at a professional level, I listen to other people's performances for pleasure, but never for emulation or learning. I have to listen to a song frequently just to discern the words, and can only really know those words if I sing them myself (i.e., experience them directly with my own sense of touch). That part of me (ironic, i know) just doesn't
learn through the sound. I learn by playing the notes on the page until they feel right. Once the notes are memorized, my tactile sense takes over competely, dominating far more than even the sound. On the other hand, my sister learned
only through sound, and never really developed the ability to sight-read music well.
In slightly different words, everyone assimilates data through multiple senses, but that data isn't necessarily meaningful to them in all senses and cannot necessarily be recalled accurately and well. Some people
need a particular method of exposure to data to enable a long-term, meaningful retention of that data (i.e., learning). Some people can use all senses at an equal or near equal level, of course, but I was curious if anyone else was, as I am, skewed strongly one way or another.
