VirSchool: The effect of background music and immersive display systems on memory for facts learned in an educational virtual environment

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 490-500

  Fassbender, Eric ^a   Richards, Deborah ^b   Bilgin, Ayse ^b   Thompson, William Forde ^b   Heiden, Wolfgang ^c  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BONN RHEIN SIEG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background music; Cognition; Media in education; Memory; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND MUSICS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE LOADS; DISPLAY SYSTEM; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; GAME TECHNOLOGIES; HISTORY LESSON; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE DISPLAY; MEDIA IN EDUCATION; MEMORY;

MONITORING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 80053173293     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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