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2024-07-11 01:00
In a small study, US researchers say toddlers took longer to respond to prompts when they were playing a game on a tablet. The team gave 63 toddlers access to a touch-screen tablet and then attempted to give them joint attention prompts. They say that the kids took longer to acknowledge a behavioural request when they were playing the game than without the screens. They suggest their findings mean that presenting toddlers with a touch-screen might be blocking them from learning early social-communicative interactions.
Journal/conference: JAMA Network Open
Link to research (DOI): 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.18492
Organisation/s: Seattle Children’s Research Institute, USA
Funder: This project was supported by the grant R21 HD099300 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Seattle Children’s Research Pilot Funding
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