Children, Wired: For Better and for Worse

Neuron

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 692-701

  Bavelier, Daphne ^a   Green, C Shawn ^b   Dye, Matthew W G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; EFFECT SIZE; EXPERIENCE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; LEARNING; MASS MEDIUM; MOOD; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW; TEACHING; TRAINING; VIOLENCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; CHILD; INFORMATION SYSTEM; TRENDS;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MASS MEDIA;

EID: 77956331532     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.035     Document Type: Review

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