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Instructional control of cognitive load in the training of complex cognitive tasks

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Fred G. W. C. Paas, Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer (1994). Instructional control of cognitive load in the training of complex cognitive tasks. Educational Psychology Review, 6(4), 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02213420
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