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Inside a Lab Studying Toddlers and Touchscreens

Chasing Life

CHAPTER

The Effects of Television on Attention

The more television children watch, the shorter their attention spans were at age seven. When you touch the screen of an iPhone or a tablet, it responds to you. It's a near constant level of interaction that we've never had before. Dr. Christochus believes these types of interactions have a fundamentally different effect on all of our brains.

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