Measuring How Screens Change Young Brains with Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD

About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of digital media on children's brain development with Dr. Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus.

How is digital media use rewiring children’s brains – and how can these impacts be measured? In this episode of Screen Deep, host Kris Perry discusses the latest research on screen use and brain development with Dr. Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology and the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Horowitz-Kraus provides an overview of how the brain processes language and reading, what...

People in this episode

Host: Kris Perry

Guest: Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus

Topics covered

• screen use
• brain development
• digital media
• children
• education
• language processing

Keywords

• screens
• young brains
• digital media
• research
• language
• reading
• development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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