A new study has revealed that children who spend more than two hours a day looking at their computer and other devices have worse memory, attention span and language skills compared with their peers who spend less screen time.
In the new study, which was published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, researchers tracked the the daily habits of 4,500 children between 8 and 11 years years old.
They found evidence suggesting that children who spend more recreational screen time on smartphones and playing video games tend to have worse cognitive skills.
Study researcher Jeremy Walsh, of the University of British Columbia in Okanagan in Canada, and colleagues found that more than two hours a day of recreational screen time is linked to worse working memory, attention levels, language skills, processing speed and executive function.
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