Effects of online multitasking on reading comprehension of expository text

Cyberpsychology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tran, Phuoc ^a   Carrillo, Rogelio ^a   Subrahmanyam, Kaveri ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer interaction; Interruptions; Learning; Multitasking; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893436955     PISSN: 18027962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5817/CP2013-3-2     Document Type: Article

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