Pre-schoolers frequently using tablet or mobile can't see the forest for the trees

(E ö tv ö s Lor á nd University (ELTE), Faculty of Science) People can be different in whether they typically see the forest or the trees, but the dominant attentional mode is focusing first on the whole, and then on the details. This is the same with children. Or so it has been until now! Children of the Alpha Generation (who has been born after 2010) typically grow up with mobile devices in their hands which seems to change how they perceive the world, as Hungarian researchers showed.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news