Ehrman, M., & Leaver, B. L. (2003). Cognitive styles in the service of language learning. System, 31 (3), 313-330.

In the paper, the authors first flesh out their "Ehrman-Leaver Cognitive Styles Construct (E&L). In doing so, they discuss the constructs of field independent and field sensitive (pointing out that it is possible to have skills associated with both), random (non-linear)-sequential (linear), global-particular, inductive-deductive, synthetic-analytic, analogue-digital, concrete-abstract, leveling-sharpening (pointing out that it deals with attention, perception, and storage in memory, while global-particular deals with top-down and bottom-up), impulsive-reflective. The article then gives the results for two learners and discusses how to interpret them.