Young children are deeply immersed in digital technologies and the way children interact
with screen-based media during early childhood is constantly changing. Literature shows …

Understanding the family dynamic surrounding media use is crucial to our understanding of
media effects, policy development, and the targeting of individuals and families for …

Media is so pervasive that it should no longer be considered a nuisance variable that could
affect development; rather, it should be seen as a fundamental part of the context in which …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

Contemporary mobile technologies offer tablets and smartphones that elicit young children's
active participation in various educational apps, dramatically transforming playing, learning …

Young preschoolers rapidly acquire new information from social partners but do not learn
efficiently from people on video. We trained parents to use Whitehurst's dialogic reading …

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 …

Augmented reality (AR) applications are becoming widely available to support preschoolers'
cognitive development and education. AR applications with educational features offer an …

We document the need to examine digital game play and app use as a context for cognitive
development, particularly during middle childhood. We highlight this developmental period …

Links between spatial and mathematical skills across the preschool years LINKS BETWEEN
SPATIAL AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS ACROSS THE PRESCHOOL YEARS Brian N Verdine …