The Effect of Audiovisual Congruency on Short-term Memory of Serial Spatial Stimuli: a Pilot Test

This paper is motivated from the question if the use of spatial sounds enhances learning in multi-modal teaching aids. In a basic pilot study the consolidation of serial stimuli was tested for unimodal conditions (visual; auditory) and a bimodal condition (spatially congruent, audiovisual). In contrary to our hypothesis, the audiovisual condition did not show better results than the visual one. In this particular test the auditory display was clearly inferior to the two other ones.