Cross-Representational Signaling and Cohesion Support Inferential Comprehension of Text-Picture Documents.

ABSTRACT: Learning from a text-picture multimedia document is particularly effective if learners can link information within the text and across the verbal and the pictorial representations. The ability to create a mental model successfully and include those implicit links is related to the ability to generate inferences. Text processing research has found that text cohesion facilitates the generation of inferences, and thus text comprehension for learners with poor prior knowledge or reading abilities, but is detrimental for learners with good prior knowledge or reading abilities. Moreover, multimedia research has found a positive effect from adding visual representations to text information, particularly when implementing signaling, which consists of verbal or visual cues designed to guide attenti

SUBMITTER: Desiron JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7847939 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature