The modality effect in multimedia learning suggests that pictures presented together with
spoken text lead to better learning outcomes than pictures presented together with written …

Depuis plus d'une vingtaine d'années, des aides à la navigation ont été développées afin de
faciliter nos déplacements. Alors que le défi initial était de proposer des systèmes efficaces …

Two experiments investigate how people create spatial mental models (SMMs) as a function
of presentation format. Spatial representations following a route within a virtual environment …

Imagine you are a tourist walking around an unfamiliar city, and you read in your guidebook
that somewhere in the city there is a famous museum of modern art. How do you get there …

Learning a novel environment involves integrating first‐person perceptual and motoric
experiences with developing knowledge about the overall structure of the surroundings. The …

This study examines the involvement of spatial and visual working memory (WM) in the
construction of flexible spatial models derived from survey and route descriptions. Sixty …

Readers mentally simulate the perceptual and motoric elements related through text. Sound
is one perceptual characteristic of these embodied simulations that has received little …

This research investigates how visuo-spatial abilities (such as mental rotation—MR—and
visuo-spatial working memory—VSWM—) work together to influence the recall of …

The present study investigates the joint role of spatial ability, imagery strategy and
visuospatial working memory (VSWM) in spatial text processing. A set of 180 participants …

It is common for instruction in the areas of science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) to include dynamic visualizations such as animations and videos in the …