This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The notion of "learning styles"-- that ...

The visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles myth is arguably the most well-known and influential of the 70-plus learning style models found to date in the literature and on popular ...

The VAK learning styles myth rests on three problematic assumptions (e.g., Kirschner, 2016), each having research to refute them. Assumption 1: The learner has a dominant sensory modality. This ...