Kinesthetics are people of the movement. Or is the concept broader?

For some people, the harmony of the world depends on colors, for the second - on sounds, but there is a third category, the most diverse. It is accepted to unite under the name "kinestetics". This, of course, simplification. Within this group there are also different types of perception. And we'll talk about this in more detail, including a new foreign classification in the discussion.

Genius as a combination of modalities

Kinesthetics are people who perceive the world and interpret it in terms of touch, smell, taste, mood, algorithm of movements. Among them, most creative people, although the artists and composers from the category under discussion did not belong to a pure kinesthetic type. Leonardo Da Vinci, for example, was a visual-kinesthetic. These two channels of perception dominated him, as a result of which he perfectly perceived the space and saw the shape of objects. Without such a combination of modalities, there would not be the genius of Da Vinci.

Melody for sensations

Audiel-kinesthetic Beethoven created music that is not only beautiful harmoniously, but also evokes pleasant sensory associations. Perhaps the mixture of modalities in his mind helped create the "Moonlight Sonata" and other vibrant deep melodies that both audiales and kinesthetics love. This is only one of the interpretations of the genius of Beethoven.

Modern foreign classification

However, at the present time in the West kinesthetics are a narrower concept. It is believed that only people who are trained and understand the world through movement can be referred to the category under discussion. And people who prefer smell, touch and mood, Western psychologists are called tactile type. Indeed, the difference is quite large. Tactile type - usually quite contemplative people, but not in the visual sense. They are simply not as active as the fans of the movement - classical kinesthetics. This makes the delineation legitimate.

Looking for each other

Why is it necessary to know the modality? People of different types often do not understand each other, from a vantage point there are many misunderstandings. For example, the audial does not look the visual in the face of the conversation, but the visual audial does not listen carefully enough! Although in general we need different things, and we must help each other. Kinesthetic is the ideal coach and dance teacher, tactile is the ideal doctor, the audial will analyze the phrases pronounced with the worst diction in the train, and the visual becomes an ideal art critic who "deliciously" describes the new paintings.

Study in its own mode

Also of great importance is the dominant modality in learning. Vizual need to draw diagrams, audial - read to yourself on the recorder material and listen for some cases, kinesthetics - to think of some kind of operations with the data being studied, but tactile must listen to his feelings from the studied, in order to reproduce everything accurately. In tactile and kinesthetic types, synesthesia is most often encountered-the interaction of sensations, which provides a phenomenal memory as a result.

The way of perception that dominates the interlocutor can be determined by the preferred words. One will say: "Look," another: "Listen", the third: "Do you feel?", And the fourth: "Let's do it". Of course, the word-markers are much larger, they are only basic. But they are sometimes enough.