ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Toddlers Using Tablets: They Engage, Play, and Learn.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Prenatal Adversity and Neonatal Brain Connectivity Relate to Emerging Executive Function at Age 2 Years.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Molecular and Neurobiological Imbalance from the Use of Technological Devices During Early Child Development Stages.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Emotional Reactivity and Behavioral Problems in Preschoolers: The Interplay of Parental Stress, Media-Related Coping, and Child Screen Time.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Reexamining models of early learning in the digital age: Applications for learning in the wild.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2023Article
- Screen time and preschool children: Promoting health and development in a digital world.Paediatrics & child health · 2023Review
- Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
Although very young children have unprecedented access to touchscreen devices, there is limited research on how successfully they operate these devices for play and learning. For infants and toddlers, whose cognitive, fine motor, and executive functions are immature, several basic questions are significant: (1) Can they operate a tablet purposefully to achieve a goal? (2) Can they acquire operating skills and learn new information from commercially available apps? (3) Do individual differences in executive functioning predict success in using and learning from the apps? Accordingly, 31 2-year-olds (
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