Learning from narrated animations with different support procedures: Working memory capacity matters

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 840-847

  Skuballa, Irene T ^a   Schwonke, Rolf ^a   Renkl, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84870354017     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.2884     Document Type: Article

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