How gadgets affect children's brain
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do the gadgets on children?
Very often, a variety of resources and then raise questions about the effects of gadgets on children. However, a group of American scientists decided to test whether this is so. The study is based not just on statistics but also on the results of MRI scans of the brain. And, it seems, the obtained data do confirm the fact that the gadgets affect children's brain.
How gadgets affect the child
For their research, researchers selected 47 children aged 3 to 5 years of age who have passed a test to measure their cognitive abilities and their parents asked to answer a series of questions about the habits of children . The questions were of the following character: «How often the children use the gadgets?», «What type of content they are viewing?», «whether adults See what the child is doing with the gadget?». All participating children also did brain scans using MRI.
As a result, the scan showed that children who spent more time in front of screens of gadgets, had what the authors call lower «integrity of white matter».
The White substance you can roughly imagine how the internal communication network of the brain. His long nerve fibers are covered with a kind of «isolation», which allows electrical signals to travel from one brain area to another without interruption. — researchers say. The integrity of this structure — this is how well organized nerve fibers, and how well developed sheath associated with cognitive abilities. In particular, it develops when children learn to speak.
Lead author John Hutton from the children's hospital in Cincinnati said that there is a clear link between more frequent use of gadgets and more low - «integrity of white matter» the children participating in the experiment. This structural change appears to be reflected in the results of cognitive test which the children also passed. The test showed a relationship between high usage of gadgets and a low level of linguistic skills and grammar skills.
It is not clear exactly how working with gadgets causes changes in brain development, and there are many factors that might explain why we found a relationship — says Dr. University of calgary Signa Lauren Bray.
Dr. Bray conducted an MRI study on a different group of children and noticed that the more a child spends time with the use of gadgets, the more symptoms of ADHD (the attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder). But this study also suggests that symptoms can be the reason why children spend time in front of screens, smartphones and tablets. However, there is a certain connection that remains to be seen. What do you think how much time a child can spend alone with gadgets? Write about it in our
It's Hard to say what is «safe» age of first use of the gadgets. We would not advise to teach a child to him, at least until the age of three. — the scientists concluded.
The Next steps that the experts intend to take relate to the detailed study of the picture of the impact of gadgets on young children and finding more clearly the relationships in which changes can occur from a child's brain. The experts also focused on the development of a number of recommendations for the use of gadgets by children for parents and child care institutions.
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