The presence of complementary information across multiple sensory or motor modalities during learning, referred to as multimodal enrichment, can markedly benefit learning outcomes. Why is this? Here, we integrate cognitive, neuroscientific, and computational approaches to understanding the effectiveness of enrichment and discuss recent neuroscience findings indicating that crossmodal responses in sensory and motor brain regions causally contribute to the behavioral benefits of enrichment. The findings provide novel evidence for multimodal theories of enriched learning, challenge assumptions of longstanding cognitive theories, and provide counterevidence to unimodal neurobiologically inspired theories. Enriched educational methods are likely effective not only because they may engage greater levels of attention or deeper levels of processing, but also because multimodal interactions in the brain can enhance learning and memory.

在学习过程中存在跨多种感觉或运动模式的互补信息，称为多模式丰富，可以显着有益于学习成果。为什么是这样？在这里，我们整合了认知、神经科学和计算方法来理解丰富的有效性，并讨论了最近的神经科学发现，这些发现表明感觉和运动大脑区域的交叉模式反应对丰富的行为益处有因果关系。这些发现为丰富学习的多模态理论提供了新的证据，挑战了长期存在的认知理论的假设，并为单模态神经生物学启发的理论提供了反证。丰富的教育方法可能是有效的，不仅因为它们可能会引起更大程度的关注或更深层次的处理，