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Alyssa P. Lawson; Richard E. Mayer – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Immersive virtual reality (IVR) is a new technology that could motivate learners, but also could contain distracting elements that increase cognitive demands on learners. In contrast, learning with conventional media, such as a narrated slideshow could be less motivating, but also less distracting. Objectives: This experiment…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Individual Differences, Learning, Executive Function
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Wyble, Brad; Bowman, Howard; Nieuwenstein, Mark – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
The attentional blink (J. E. Raymond, K. L. Shapiro, & K. M. Arnell, 1992) refers to an apparent gap in perception observed when a second target follows a first within several hundred milliseconds. Theoretical and computational work have provided explanations for early sets of blink data, but more recent data have challenged these accounts by…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements