eye-minded

The "literary" user of language in modern times comes to depend upon the written or printed page; he tends to become more or less "eye-minded"; whereas the typical orator remains "ear-minded" -- i.e. peculiarly sensitive to a series of sounds, and composing for the ear of listeners rather than for the eye of readers.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

Children who more readily recall things seen than things heard are called by psychologists "eye-minded," and most of us are bent in this direction.

The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

We know how essentially eye-minded the Egyptian was, to use a modern psychological phrase -- that is to say, how essential to him it seemed that all his conceptions should be visualized.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

For example, aside from the desirable rate of advance for each person, which has already been mentioned, a student maybe eye-minded, or ear - minded, or motor-minded.

How to Study and Teaching How to Study 1899

_ -- The so-called "visuals," or "eye-minded" people among us, are numerically the largest class of the sensory population.

The Story of the Mind James Mark Baldwin 1897

(scroll down if you just want to see what words were thought to be most used, and therefore most needed in a spelling lesson, in the 1940s) "Some people are 'eye-minded,' some are 'ear-minded,' some are muscle-minded, 'and some have little mind of any kind ...."

The Common Room 2008