Articles from the Sackler Colloquium on Digital Media and Developing Minds examine potential benefits, costs, and risks of digital-media exposure for children and young adults; the articles include a meta-analysis of studies on links between video-game violence and aggressive behavior, a study of 9-month-old infants in which phoneme learning from video touch screens was enhanced in the presence of peers, and a review of research on links between early media exposure and attention.
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Article #18-12850: "From savannas to blue-phase LCD screens: Prospects and perils for child development in the Post-Modern Digital Information Age," by David E. Meyer.
MEDIA CONTACT: David E. Meyer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; tel: 734-763-1477; e-mail: demeyer@umich.edu
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences