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Dandan Wu
Dandan Wu

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How Early Digital Experience Shapes Young Brains: A Scoping Review
Dandan Wu
Xinyi Dong

Dandan Wu

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August 14, 2023
Early digital experience (e.g., screen time and digital use) is believed to impact children’s brain development, functionally and structurally, but this impact has not been systematically reviewed. In this scoping review, we synthesized and evaluated 33 collected studies on children’s digital use (ages 0-12) and their associated brain development published between January 2000 and April 2023. The synthesis of the evidence revealed that: (1) digital experience does have positive and negative impacts on children’s brains, structurally and functionally; (2) it could cause structural and functional changes in children’s frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes, brain connectivity, and brain networks; and the most vulnerable area is the prefrontal cortex and its associated executive function; (3) early digital experience has both positive and negative impacts on children’s brain structure longitudinally. The limitations and implications for future studies are also discussed.

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