OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS This study aimed to determine the relationship among cognitive load condition and measures of autonomic arousal and voice production in healthy adults. STUDY DESIGN A prospective study design was conducted. METHODS Sixteen healthy young adults (eight men, eight women) produced a sentence containing an embedded Stroop task in each of two cognitive load conditions: congr...

Recently, instructional videos are widely being used in educational settings. Many researches have proposed the construction of video-based learning environments that reflect Cognitive Load Theory. In this study, we examined the effects of cognitive load induced by the speed of video playing in an interactive video-based learning environment. The experimental results showed that increasing or d...

Humour has been shown to improve elements of the educational experience, but only under certain circumstances. We use Cognitive Load Theory to explain that these circumstances occur when humour does not overload the student’s cognitive load. The problem-solving approach, typically used in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, already increases the cognitive load, and the a...

Standards-referenced educational reform has increased the prevalence of standardized testing; however, whether these tests accurately measure students' competencies has been questioned. This may be due to domain-specific assessments placing a differing domain-general cognitive load on test-takers. To investigate this possibility, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to identify...

Concurrent cognitive load has a devastating effect on consumer decision making. Implicit in the theorizing about cognitive load seems to be that this negative effect disappears when the load is removed. Three experiments explored whether cognitive load produces after-effects and showed that various types of prior cognitive load increase the subsequent impact of easily available information on b...

Two studies examined the use of video in multimedia learning environments. In Study 1, participants (N = 26) viewed one of two versions of a computer-based multimedia presentation: video, which included a video of a lecture with synchronized slides, or no video, which included the slides but only an audio narration of the lecture. Learning, cognitive load and social presence were assessed, but ...

Reading strategies, prior knowledge and cognitive load are some variables that have been related with comprehension and learning with hypertext systems. In this study we analyze the effect of two different hypertext reading strategies – coherence and interest – and two prior knowledge levels – low and high on cognitive load, and their relation with learning. For low prior knowledge readers, dat...

A virtual reality driving system was designed to improve driving skills in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). An appropriate level of cognitive load during training can help improve a participant’s long-term performance. This paper studied cognitive load measurement with multimodal information fusion techniques. Features were extracted from peripheral physiological signals, Electr...

Whether cognitive load-and other aspects of task difficulty-increases or decreases distractibility is subject of much debate in contemporary psychology. One camp argues that cognitive load usurps executive resources, which otherwise could be used for attentional control, and therefore cognitive load increases distraction. The other camp argues that cognitive load demands high levels of concentr...

Recently, researchers started using cognitive load in various settings, e.g., educational psychology, cognitive load theory, or human– computer interaction. Cognitive load characterizes a tasks’ demand on the limited information processing capacity of the brain. The widespread adoption of eye–tracking devices led to increased attention for objectively measuring cognitive load via pupil dilation...