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I forgot where I read that but I remember a neuroscientist studying the impact of TV on learning abilities saying that it is much better to leave a child in a silent room with no stimulation and a dumb toy than putting them in front of a TV program with a lot of cuts and making loud noises. It interrupts their thought process every time there is an abrupt visual or audio change and the baby thinking is reset.
People stop trusting science when they are asked to believe "research" findings which are obviously not true.
Obviously not true, or does not fit your biased priors?
Science reporting does itself a massive disservice publishing headlines like this, especially when the real takeaway is just "MRIs cannot see the damage done to children's brains with screens". Even other children know that the "ipad kids" are different and damaged in some way, my young cousin and his friends call them bots.
The title is misleading. This is not about child cognitive development, merely just some brain imaging. In short, the MRI method can not see the effects of screen time. This is of course a good thing but does mean nothing about cognitive development. From the abstract of the article [1]: We studied a [...] sample of young people [...] (ages 9–12 years) to investigate the relations between self-reported use of various…
The question is WHAT is the child doing on that screen? Are they blobbing out or are they playing a video game that stimulates and challenges their brain (a strategy game, even action games) or socializing with friends in a video game learning how to conflict manage and operate as an effective social group? (minecraft is full of this).
I mean we ruined the world for kids, I can’t blame them for looking to virtual worlds to transcend the hellhole we left them even a little bit. Sure, the kids should just “go outside” and play in the… development full of huge pickups that aren’t even designed to able to see children (they kind of look custom designed to run over children actually), with no public spaces to explore and play in, no sidewalks leading from the development to anywhere else and endless strip malls, parking lots and cars as far as the eye can see…
Their brain is going to be healthier engaging with good video games than that landscape.
The title is misleading. This is not about child cognitive development, merely just some brain imaging. In short, the MRI method can not see the effects of screen time. This is of course a good thing but does mean nothing about cognitive development. From the abstract of the article [1]: We studied a [...] sample of young people [...] (ages 9–12 years) to investigate the relations between self-reported use of various…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Obviously not true, or does not fit your biased priors?
It's actually reasonable for people to build theories about the world around them by carefully observing the environment around them.
Dubious at best. If one has children they notice quite visibly that screen time makes their children more agitated during the days they have screen time. And screen time is as addictive to children as it is to adults, and we should consider the effects they have on their developing brains.
What you want to be true isn’t necessarily universal.