Learning with media

Background Music for Studying: A Naturalistic Study

Field experiments that probe how students study with music in the background, in light of cognitive-affective theory of learning with media.

Multimodal Analysis of User-music Interactions in the Lab

Leveraging multimodal data to probe the effects of five different types of background audio (four types of instrumental music and one environmental sound) on reading comprehension.

Deep Reading in the Omnimedia Era

This study discussed the mechanisms underlying deep reading in terms of (a) the cognitive-affective process inside the reading brain and (b) reading as a social process.