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Inside a Lab Studying Toddlers and Touchscreens

Chasing Life

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The Overstimulation Hypothesis

The newborn brain triples in size in the first two years of life. So our minds fine-tune themselves to the world we inhabit. It's an evolutionary advantage historically. The question I had was that overstimulation would kind of precondition the brain to expect high levels of input and then reality by comparison would be understimulating, would be boring.

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