Perception channels and cognitive styles: opponents, followers or learning allies?

This article presents the findings in the process of evaluating the relationship between perception channels and cognitive styles, from the analysis of conceptions over time and their involvement. Establishing through an experiment, and applying two didactic strategies, the associations with learning. Channels are characterized with VAK, Styles with CHAEA, and Performance with a pre-test/post-test design. It was shown that channels and styles are allies that independently encourage the teaching-learning process. Outcome shows that people with multiple channels and styles develop more skills, achieving better results. Games as ludic activities stimulate all channels, and favor the construction of knowledge, thus improving performance with positive differences in p-values between 0.014 and 0.022.