Cognitive style or "hinking style" is a concept used in cognitive psychology to describe the way individuals think, perceive and remember information. Messick calls them "habitual modes of information processing". In the language-learning field, some of the most interesting is field independence. That is some individual seem more able than others to extract things from the context in which they are met, and to see them as separate entities. People who can do this easily are said to be 'field independent' , while those who don't are 'field dependent'.