The superiority of written communication presented in the print (about 500 words) modality was tested by showing a television holiday programme to 63 subjects in its original audiovisual modality (narrative plus film), in auditory only (narrative soundtrack minus film), or print (written transcript of soundtrack). Immediately after presentation recall was best from the written communication in the print modality.
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