Explaining the modality and contiguity effects: New insights from investigating students' viewing behaviour

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-237

  Schmidt Weigand, Florian ^a   Kohnert, Alfred ^b   Glowalla, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77956426441     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1554     Document Type: Article

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