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...

Social inclusion, lifelong learning and the regeneration of competence networks are key processes which foster innovation. Museums may play an important role in these processes and ICT can strongly support the effectiveness of the interventions required. Among them, digital tools used to tell stories are becoming increasingly popular. Narratives in new dimensions enable the formation of persona...

"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.

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...

Emotional events tend to be retained more strongly than other everyday occurrences, a phenomenon partially regulated by the neuromodulatory effects of arousal. Two experiments demonstrated the use of relaxing music as a means of reducing arousal levels, thereby challenging heightened long-term recall of an emotional story. In Experiment 1, participants (N=84) viewed a slideshow, during which th...

structural studies of literary works, which seek to examine the inner textual elements and to discover their connections, provide the grounds for better understanding the essence of literature and by presenting the devices of creating excellent literature can help us to expand the patterns of processing a literary work. a number of structural critics have dealt with the narrative forms by study...