A new study by UCLA psychologists reveals that when VR is used to teach language, context and realism matter. The research is published in the journal npj Science of Learning. “The context in which we learn things can help us remember them better,” said Jesse Rissman, the paper’s corresponding author and a UCLA associate professor of psychology. “We wanted to know if learning foreign languages in virtual reality environments could improve recall, especially when there was the potential for two sets of words to interfere with each other.”
