Year: 2007
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Riding's cognitive style constructs have been recently criticised due to the poor performance of the CSA with regards reliability. This paper argues against premature abandonment of the constructs due to inefficiencies of the instrument and suggests that Neuro physiological measures may be a way forward. Sixteen participants (8 male, 8 female) were asked to listen to two different prose passages one highly concrete and descriptive the other highly semantically complex and acoustical (known previously to differentiate between verbalisers and imagers). Participants were attached to 19 electrodes via EEG recording equipment and overall power recordings were obtained for alpha, beta and theta frequency ranges. Results indicated that neural activity differentiated between verbalisers and imagers and wholists and analytics. Although this study implies neural correlates for the verbal imagery and wholist analytic dimensions this research is still in its early stages and needs further exploration and replication. In this paper arguments are made for further research around Riding's style model despite recent criticism of its measurement instrument the CSA. It is important for any instrument used to measure a construct to be robust in terms of both its reliability and validity. Investigation into a better instrument is necessary and a viable option may be the use of neuro physiological measures. Evidence is presented in this paper to suggest neural activity correlates of Riding's style measures. However, the research is still in its early stages and needs further exploration and replication.
Author: Michael Grimley
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2259212481