Verbal improvisation is cognitively demanding, placing great burden on working memory as the speaker is tasked to generate a novel, spontaneous narrative.
According to Sweller's theory, cognitive load can be divided into three forms: (1) The extraneous load, which represents the unnecessary information not absolutely needed, such as visual animations for better visualization, should be reduced to a minimum so as not to burden the working memory.
Thus, the words are processed as separate items, which burdens the working memory.
The burden on working memory may be relieved, since the decision maker does not have to keep all the information in mind if he arranges information in a way that facilitates the application of a strategy.
The differentiation of the groups based on the number of correct answers on subtests 9 and 10 shows the increased burden of working memory in these blocks, such as increasing linguistic (syntactic) complexity by introducing a variety of grammatical constructions into statements.
Hence, in the context of this research, it is plausible that agent enthusiasm may impose additional processing burden, also known as, extraneous cognitive load on working memory, because learners have to attend to exaggerated nonverbal cues by an enthusiastic virtual agent.
These considerations place a burden on the perceptual and visual working memory capacities of human experts.
Sex, FSIQ, auditory working memory, and visual-spatial working memory did not enter as significant covariates.
Also in pre-school children, visuospatial working memory training improved untrained verbal working memory performance.
