Synopsis :
Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts investigates the impact of screen media on key aspects of children and adolescents' cognitive development. Highlighting how screen media impact cognitive development, the book addresses a topic often neglected amid societal concerns about pathological media use and vulnerability to media effects, such as aggression, cyber-bullying and Internet addiction. It addresses children and adolescents' cognitive development involving their interactions with parents, early language development, imaginary play, attention, memory, and executive control, literacy and academic performance.
À propos des auteurs:
-Research concerns the development of children's attention and problem solving in the context of informal and formal digital learning settings.
-Author/editor of the following books: Learning by Playing: Frontiers of Video Gaming in Education (Oxford, 2014), Children and Advertising: New Issues and New Media (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014); When East Meets West: Media Research and Practice in the US and China (Cambridge 2007); The Design of Instruction and Evaluation (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004).
-Research focuses on adult foreign language learning and uses computer games to study speech perception and production in children with typical and atypical language development.
-Author of the following books: Encyclopedia of Languages Development (Sage, 2014) and Language Development (Wiley, 2012).
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