neotoma.livejournal.com ([identity profile] neotoma.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] gwendolyngrace 2010-08-28 09:14 pm (UTC)


And then he said that he never internalizes the pronunciation of proper nouns and names while he's reading things.


He's not an aural processor (probably visual or possibly kinesthetic). You, on the other hand, are almost certainly an aural processor.

It's simply a matter of what sense is dominate. People vary, with most being visual or aural to one degree or another -- primary kinesthetics are not quite as common, but still normal. It's probably intrinsic to each individual brain, though I'm sure teaching can push one to expand a non-dominant sense.

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