Learning with dynamic and static visualizations: Realistic details only benefit learners with high visuospatial abilities

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 330-339

  Brucker, Birgit ^a   Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Gerjets, Peter ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic and static visualizations; Learning; Pictorial recognition; Realism; Schematization; Visuospatial abilities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

LEARNING; PICTORIAL RECOGNITION; REALISM; SCHEMATIZATION; STATIC VISUALIZATIONS; VISUOSPATIAL ABILITIES;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84899649340     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.03.077     Document Type: Article

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