Visual and verbal thinkers; a visual thinker is someone who uses images to think, and verbal thinkers think with words. If you were to look up the definition of visual thinking, the first thing that would pop up as an answer is: refers to a group of generative skills that, when practiced with rigorous discipline, result in the production of new and original ideas . By seeking to discover visual forms that correspond to one's underlying human experience, the student of visual thinking learns about the world. These last two sentences were quite confusing, so to understand better, I kept looking for something simpler; for more information on visual thinking. It was already clear that a visual thinker thinks in pictures, but needing something more descriptive, I continued to find articles and the quotes they contained. What I found is thoughtfully interpreted in this essay. Visual and verbal thinkers use different ways of remembering things; they are different in their own minds. Visual and verbal thinkers are different in several ways; the way they process information, the way they may respond differently to different types of action, and the way they think can also vary depending on which hemisphere of the brain you're working towards. “Although the basic steps used to process information are consistent, the skills, goals, prior knowledge, and strategies used in processing information can vary significantly between individuals. (Sojka and Giese) » What helps me best understand these quotes from the article “The Influence of Personality Traits on the Processing of Visual and Verbal Information” is how they are explained in more detail. detail in the rest of the article, how people wrote it, tested the different visual and verbal thinkers...... middle of paper ...... as a visual thinker, you think in images and use pictures to help you understand what is happening in the world around you, When you think as a verbal thinker, you remember things in words and you describe and define things in ways that will help you. Verbal and visual thinking are both different and the same and can depend on how you learn, how you are taught, and which hemisphere of the brain you are working toward, but whether you are forced to think from the way you don't do it, then your brain gets confused. Works Cited Kirby, John. “Verbal and Visual Learning Styles.” pp. 1. OnlineSojka, Jane. Giese Jeanne. “The influence of personality traits on the processing of visual and verbal information.” A Journal of Marketing Research. PrintSword, Leasley. “I think in pictures you think in: the gifted visual spatial learner” pp.7. Print