Domain-specific interference, attributed by the embedded-processes model to similarity-based interference, underpins multimedia learning's modality benefits¶

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q1 i? Two visuo-spatial or two verbal operations interfere more strongly than a visuo-spatial and a verbal one, and the embedded-processes model attributes this to similarity-based interference. → Judith Schweppe & Ralf Rummer 2015

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Judith Schweppe & Ralf Rummer 2015¶

Judith Schweppe & Ralf Rummer. (2015). Attention and Long-Term Memory in System and Process Theories of Working Memory: A Reply to Soemer's (2015) Comment on Schweppe and Rummer (2014). Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-015-9336-0

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Theoretical argument citing research inspired by the multicomponent model on domain-specific interference, as Soemer (2015) pointed out. The article attributes the similarity-based interpretation to Cowan (1999) and notes the modality distinction is not equivalent to Baddeley and Hitch's domain-specific distinction.

"This finding, which the embedded-processes model attributes to similarity-based interference (Cowan 1999), can even be regarded as the basis of multimedia learning because it emphasizes the benefit due to combining pictorial and verbal information"

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