The past decade has witnessed a rapid increase in the use of screen media in families, and
infants are exposed to screens at younger ages than ever before. The objective of this …

The ability to transfer learning across contexts is an adaptive skill that develops rapidly
during early childhood. Learning from television is a specific instance of transfer of learning …

There is abundant evidence for the 'video deficit': children under 2 years old learn better in
person than from video. We evaluated whether these findings applied to video chat by …

Young children are growing up in an increasingly complicated digital world. Laboratory-
based research shows that it is cognitively demanding to process and transfer information …

Television has become a nearly ubiquitous feature in children's cultural landscape. A review
of the research into young children's learning from television indicates that the likelihood that …

Preschool children (N= 104) read a book that described and illustrated color camouflage in
animals (frogs and lizards). Children were then asked to indicate and explain which of 2 …

Toddlers' performance on a seriation sequencing task was measured after exposure to a
video as a function of the social meaningfulness of the character. Forty eight 21-month-old …

Television comprehension is a surprisingly demanding task for very young children. Based
on a task analysis of television viewing and review of research, we suggest that by 6 months …

There are a myriad of potentially harmful developmental outcomes associated with infant
digital media use. Studies revealing risk associated with early media use have informed the …

In this famous statement, Gertrude Stein emphasizes that any given rose is incontrovertibly a
singular object. Ironically, this oft-quoted line also draws our attention to the fact that a rose …