ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Getting to Know the Content: A Video before the Reading Improves Understanding
- Kolya Ludwig
California State University, Los Angeles - Caylor Davis
California State University, Los Angeles - Daisy Teves
California State University, Los Angeles - Brittany Ayala
California State University, Los Angeles - Nicholas Arce
University of California, Irvine - Ji Son
California State University, Los Angeles
Abstract
The current study demonstrated that reading comprehension could be improved if readers were exposed to a video of the author of the material before reading the text. Researchers hypothesize that this is due to an activation of theory of mind while reading.
Learning and Memory
