Wolfgang Schnotz is Emeritus Professor of General and Educational Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He was a member of the Reading Expert Group for the OECD, Chief Editor of Learning and Instruction, and head of the DFG Graduate School Teaching and Learning. He publishes on text comprehension, multimedia learning, learning from animation, and conceptual change.

• 1. Introduction; 2. A short history of multimedia sign systems; 3. Basic forms of representations; 4. Comprehension of text; 5. Comprehension of pictures; 6. Integrative comprehension of texts and pictures; 7. Quasi-Symbolic relations between text and picture comprehension; 8. Beyond comprehension: multimedia in thinking and problem solving; 9. Practical implications; Concluding remarks.

'As befits a research volume, the book features an extensive bibliography, and the text is well referenced. Yet the book is readable and should be accessible to nonspecialists. It is recommended for academic libraries supporting cognitive sciences as approached through several disciplines. … Recommended.' D. Z. Spicer, Choice