Cueing complex animations: Does direction of attention foster learning processes?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 650-663

  Lowe, Richard ^a   Boucheix, Jean Michel ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Animation; Attention direction; Cues; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960071856     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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