| >excessive screen time early in life can change the circuits in a growing brain Any activity changes the brain. Also, as BurningFrog points out, "rewires" is a metaphorical term and therefore vague. Ditto "circuits". >mice ...aren't human. > But it also meant they acted like they had an attention deficit disorder Such disorders are pretty loosely defined. Something "like" such a disorder is vaguer still. And, again, these are mice for goodness sake. >In a video game, he said, you can meet the equivalent of a lion every few seconds. No you can't. Lions are dangerous! >our understanding of how sensory stimulation affects developing brains. We're not passive. We decide what to pay attention to. Thus we can't be stimulated arbitrarily by the environment. Actually I think this is assumed by the contradictory concept of "attention deficit", elsewhere in the piece. |