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In college I worked with a professor who researched memory. He worked with word lists and recall. He found that although there are many urban legends that say seeing with your eyes and hearing with your ears improves memory, ergo videos have to be the best way to learn, since you see and hear something together. Unfortunately that is the opposite of what we see when we run memory experiments. If you read the word dog, you are able to easily form a mental picture of a dog, showing a picture of the dog and saying to word has no measurable affect on recall. It is a misapplication of the dual coding hypothesis. Reading engages both the eyes and ears.

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The statement is true. Video-clips engage both the eyes and the ears. Video-clips engage both the eyes and the ear. The eyes help the ears to hear, and the ears help the eyes to see. Video-clips, therefore, contribute to multi-sensory learning. Video-clips are more effective than audio accompanied by text, audio alone, or text alone.

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