This study concerned the possible interaction of individual differences in learning with mode of presentation. The subjects were college students; data analyses were replicated by conducting separate analyses for two groups of 77 and 83 subjects, respectively. Each subject learned 4 test lists of 20 words each, 2 under auditory presentation and 2 under visual presentation. The main analyses indicated that individual differences in learning were reliable and that individual differences were just as predictable across modalities as within modalities. A complementary analysis showed that subjects could not be reliably classified in terms of auditory-visual preference scores. The findings gave no support to the contention that subjects can be classified as auditory learners or visual learners.

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