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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…
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.
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Absence of evidence != Evidence of Absence
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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…
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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…
That screen time might lead to a maladaptive brain as evidence by MRI, strikes me as an extreme effect. I’d be curious to know what else this experimental design had been applied to in the past and whether it’s at all commensurate with this purpose.