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www.thefreeradical.ca/research/earlyTVPrunesNeuralConnections.html


"Unlike other organs, which at birth are
miniature versions of what they will be in the
adult human body, an infant's brain continues
to evolve for another 24 months, weeding out
neural connections that don't get used. If a child
is hearing-impaired, for instance, the brain will
prune circuits that process spoken language and
reroute those cells into visual circuits, says
psychologist Jane Healy of Vail, Colo., a
specialist in how children learn.
Exposure to screens tends to shut down the
circuits responsible for social interaction and
deductive reasoning. ''Those circuits are
stimulated by direct, interpersonal connections
with parents and the environment: eye contact,
gesture, responsiveness, trial and error,'' says
Healy. She is author of ''Your Child's Growing
Mind, Revised edition'' (Doubleday) and ''Failure
to Connect, How Computers Affect Our
Children's Minds'' (Simon & Schuster).
As a result, these children become passive
learners, dependent on external sources (the
screen, for example, or someone else's ideas)
for intellectual stimulation. ''They won't know
how to problem-solve or think outside the box.
They will not be leaders of the 21st century,''
says Hirsh-Pasek."