Human Relations, Vol. 51, No. 7, 1998
Authors: John Hayes and Christopher W. Allinson

Some useful citations for future:

“Cognitive style is a person ’s preferred way of gathering, processing, and
evaluating information. It influences how people scan their environment for
information, how they organize and interpret this information, and how they
integrate their interpretations into the mental model and subjective theories
that guide their actions.”

“Learning style is usually regarded as a subcategory of cognitive style”