Research on metacognition has consistently demonstrated that learners fail to endorse instructional designs that produce benefits to memory, and often prefer designs that actually impair comprehension. Unlike previous studies in which learners were only exposed to a single multimedia design, the current study used a within-subjects approach to examine whether exposure to both redundant text and...

"With poetry, the tune is in the words themselves-and once you begin to hear it, it will stay with you." Richard P. Korf, notes to his narration of John Brown's Body.

Preregistration requires scientists to describe the planned research activities before their project begins. improves transparency in empirical and is an institutional response scientific misconduct. This paper studies impact of a preregistration requirement model which sender can generate information for receiver by running private experiments. The also engage uninformative manipulation. argue...

Children’s visual attention to, and comprehension of, a television progmm was measured OS 0 function of inserts called preplays that varied on two orthogonal dimensions: (1) Presence or absence of visual excerpts from the pragmm, and (2) concrete or inferential story narration. visual fixation was coded continuously for 64 pairs of same-sex children, in 1st through 4th gmdes, while they viewed ...

In this paper, I want to discuss one type of “pragmatic ambiguity”, i.e. utterances of which it is not clear whether they are sentences of narration or represented speech and thought. Through the discussion of these examples, I will introduce a few notions which seem to me important for the analysis of represented speech and thought, notably the notion of metarepresentation. I will then turn to...

In a moment of bravery, I invited eight unacquainted teenagers to the Michigan State University Museum and allowed actually encouraged them to tell me what they liked and didnt like about our museum and museums in general. And they did! Teams were then turned loose in the halls with clipboards, a tape recorder and the goal of developing their own version of an orientation to each floor. They we...

What inferences do readers make about “who knows what” in narrative worlds? We introduce the concepts of projected knowledge and projected co-presence to describe circumstances in which readers infer that characters possess information presented, for example, only in narration. Our experiments examine one type of evidence readers use to project knowledge. In Experiment 1, readers used character...