Evidence suggests that chronic sensory stimulation via excessive exposure to screen time may affect brain development in negative ways. Excessive smartphone use may increase the risk of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional disorders in adolescents and young adults that also has the potential to increase...
Dr. Gaya Dowling: We don't know if it's being caused by the screen time. We don't know yet if it's a bad thing. It won't be until we follow them over time that we will see if there are outcomes that are associated with the differences that we're see...
In years past, concerns about too much screen time were easily remedied by simply turning off the TV. Now however, we live in the Digital Age wh...
screen-based programming, those recommendations are based on studies with significant limitations. In general, studies on the subject quickly become outdated or can't prove a causal connection between a certain amount of screen time and any number of outcomes, including mental health and brain ...
[6]. Because the Internet can be used through various media such asmobile phonesor computers Internet use sometimes falls under the category of ‘screen-based sedentary behavior’. Although it is unclear how time spent specifically using the Internet relates tophysical activity, a longitudinal study...
Remembering to execute pre-defined intentions at the appropriate time in the future is typically referred to as Prospective Memory (PM). Studies of PM showed that distinct cognitive processes underlie the execution of delayed intentions depending on whether the cue associated with such intentions is ...
Sense of agency is associated with a subjective compression of time: actions and their outcomes are perceived as bound together in time. This is known as ‘intentional binding’ and, in healthy adults, depends partly on advance prediction of action outcomes. Notably, this predictive contribution ...
In these tasks, visual stimuli were presented on the screen for 15 s with a question placed in the center and the answer options placed in the bottom. The difficulty levels of the two tasks were set to be as similar as possible, and in a preliminary study of 10 participants other than ...
Information about others’ experiences can strongly influence our own feelings and decisions. But how does such social information affect the neural generation of affective experience, and are the brain mechanisms involved distinct from those that mediat
The experts suggest that hands-on activities and those involving direct human interaction are superior to interactive screen games. The use of mobile devices becomes especially problematic when such devices replace hands-on activities that help develop visual-motor andsensorimotorskills. There are still ...