Visual Learner
Someone who prefers information as diagrams, charts, maps and flow charts rather than prose. Stated preference is a poor predictor of visual memory.
In Fleming and Mills' original scheme the V mode covers maps, spider diagrams, charts, graphs, flow charts, hierarchies and the arrows, boxes and symbols that show how parts relate. It deliberately excludes photographs, still images and video.
The practical marker is what you reach for when a subject gets hard. If your instinct is to sketch the relationships or redraw a process as a flow chart, that is a genuine visual preference. It says what you find comfortable, not what your memory is capable of. Kratzig and Arbuthnott (2006) compared people's stated perceptual style against their measured performance on modality-specific memory tasks and found essentially no relationship between the two.
The defensible use of the label is a study habit, not a filter on inputs. Converting a lecture into diagram-shaped notes is well supported. Refusing to attend the lecture is not.
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