ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
All Tapped Out: Touchscreen Interactivity and Young Children's Word Learning.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The impact of touchscreen digital exposure on children's social development and communication: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Digital Device Usage and Childhood Cognitive Development: Exploring Effects on Cognitive Abilities.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Children's subjective uncertainty-driven sampling behaviour.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Reexamining models of early learning in the digital age: Applications for learning in the wild.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2023Article
- Environmental opportunities facilitating cognitive development in preschoolers: development of a multicriteria index.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Article
- Toddlers Using Tablets: They Engage, Play, and Learn.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Touchscreens for Whom? Working Memory and Age Moderate the Impact of Contingency on Toddlers' Transfer From Video.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Symbolic Understanding and Word-Picture-Referent Mapping from iPads in Autism Spectrum Condition: The Roles of Iconicity and Engagement.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
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- Characteristics of Children's Media Use and Gains in Language and Literacy Skills.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Can Touchscreen Devices be Used to Facilitate Young Children's Learning? A Meta-Analysis of Touchscreen Learning Effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Interactive media use and early childhood development.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
- Quality of interactive media use in early childhood and child development: a multicriteria analysis.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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Abstract
Touchscreen devices differ from passive screen media in promoting physical interaction with events on the screen. Two studies examined how young children's screen-directed actions related to self-regulation (Study 1) and word learning (Study 2). In Study 1, 30 2-year-old children's tapping behaviors during game play were related to their self-regulation, measured using Carlson's snack task: girls and children with high self-regulation tapped significantly less during instruction portions of an app (including object labeling events) than did boys and children with low self-regulation. Older preschoolers (
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