Media Symbol Systems and Cognitive Processes

The Handbook of Children, Media, and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 166-187

  Subrahmanyam, Kaveri ^a,b   Greenfield, Patricia ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advances in hardware; Computer games and attentional skills; Developmental issues; Internalized mental representations; New developmental theory; Radio and television cognitive implications, motor implications; Videogames and computer games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889269559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302752.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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