Pictures over words: a cross-sectional study reporting short term memory abilities in children.

ABSTRACT: Background:  An impressive amount of research has been conducted studying the modality effect on multimedia information in children from higher elementary school to college. In the present study, we aimed to examine the modality effect in the recall of multimedia information among children between the age range of 6 years to 9 years 11 months.   Methods: The study followed a cross-sectional design and comprised of 80 participants between the ages of 6 years to 9 years 11 months. An animated story was shown to the children, following which a word recall task was performed. In this task, children were asked to recall the words mentioned in the story from a pictorial array. Results: One-way analysis of variance revealed a significant difference in the overall recall abili

SUBMITTER: Rooha A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7818238 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature