How multimedia can improve learning

sensory input combined with new information at the same time, has positive effects on memory retrieval

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Sensory memory is caused by experiencing anything through the five senses (sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch) and is involuntarily stored in long-term memory as episodic knowledge. However, these sensory memories degrade very quickly, and it's only when the person pays attention to elements of sensory memory that these experiences get introduced into working memory. Once an experience is in a student's working memory, the learner then can consciously hold that experience in his or her memory and can think about it in context.

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