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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
TV damages toddlers' attention spans
TV also poisons attention spans and the ability to focus, a classic hallmark of executive function. For each additional hour of TV watched by a child under the age of 3, the likelihood of an attentional problem by age 7 increased by about 10 percent. So a preschooler who…
Video games and childhood obesity
What does that literature say about video games and developing brains in babies? There’s not much, and it paints a decidedly mixed picture. This is understandable. The subject is too new, and the technology undergirding it is changing too rapidly. So what parents of newborns…
Limiting Children's Screen Time Linked To Better Cognition - Bbc News
Children's screen time linked to cognition
Children aged eight to 11 who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better in tests of mental ability, a study found. Combining this with nine to 11 hours of sleep a night was found to be best for performance. Researchers said more work was now needed to…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Brain plasticity and screen culture
‘Although most neuroscientists are familiar with the concept of what we call plasticity,’ she told me, ‘it might be that most people haven’t really grasped just how malleable their own brains are, how sensitive their brains are to the environment.’ Given that, she is fascinated…
Screens do not make us passive
The route from here to this dystopia seems very unclear. Greenfield bases her worries on the idea that screen culture is essentially ‘sensational’, that it bombards us with discrete experiences which do not forge the kinds of connections that make us into Someones. She seems to…
Worry Less About Children's Screen Use, Parents Told - Bbc News
Screen time and children
The recommendation that children should not use the devices in the hour before bedtime comes because of evidence that they can harm sleep. The devices stimulate the brain, and the blue light produced by them can disrupt the body's secretion of the sleep hormone melatonin. While…