It starts with the idea that most people have a sensory preference, just like handedness.
Initially waking consciousness was set as the benchmark and the idea of learning styles, considered here was evolved.
Based on analysis of clients in therapeutic settings, eye movement patterns, combined with sensory word use, revealed the dominant sensory preference for the client.
Therapists that matched the sensory processing patterns of their clients achieved rapport and we able to present changes in the client‘s normal pattern for change.
Educators made a generalization that as an initial strategy, creating learning materials based on the learners dominant sensory preference would facilitate learning.
It missed the key element of what prime sensory details were to be learned and how did the experts experience the process.
Dawna Markova realized that for most learning there were 3 primary sensory modes, in the dominance conversation.
They were V, A, and K.
However, learning goes beyond waking consciousness and extends into memory and sub consciousness as learning progresses.
To her surprise each level of consciousness, the conscious mind, subconscious and unconscious each turned out to process information differently.
It also turned out that those levels basically each specialized in a different primary sense.
One of the differences turned out to be the size of the sensory unit used at each level of consciousness.
The conscious mind breaks sensory information into units and subunits.
Visuals can be described in shapes, lines, and other structural terms, or other characteristics like color, hues, intensity, movement, textures, etc.
The subconscious works with bigger pictures that serve like puzzles pieces we can assemble it larger parts.
They can be movement patterns we have learned through repetition or automatic responses in situations, like habits.
They can be strategies composed of tactics based on situational factor.
In athletic endeavors this is where sport plays, patterns of movement, combination play, strategies and tactics can be assembled into game plans.
This is the toolbox of techniques that can be pulled into situations and executed on cue.
Based on what Dawna learned the subconscious will be either Visual, Auditory, or Kinaesthetic.
Lee Brett talks about how the Conscious mind can process about 50 bits of information per second bit that the unconscious mind processes millions of bits per second.
The problem with that is, there is an element of truth in it, but only when viewed with the perspective of the conscious mind.
The subconscious mind will see a ten digit number as 3 number chunks.
The millions of details in the Mona Lisa, might just be a single picture in the unconscious minds eye, a singular experience of seeing it in a gallery.
Lee Brett talks about creating a physical separation between the combined subconscious situation on the table with developing a game plan, away from the table, about 3 feet or so.
When he goes to shoot inside that three feet, he needs the subconscious sensory resources to dominate and execute automatically.
Any other non subconscious sensory information, like an analytical voice or sudden visual or feeling element showing up as a center focus pushing the subconscious sense into the background, creates a reason to get up.
Breaching the outer perimeter and moving into the action zone acts as a trigger to only work with subconscious sensory details.
Watch the video and you will get a sense of this in action.
In the second video he talks about how his shot awareness starts with feeling the shot from his feet and the proper physical orientation lets him just shoot the shot automatically.
This sequence suggests that his subconscious is Kinesthetically dominant.
