Young children are growing up in an increasingly complicated digital world. Laboratory-
based research shows that it is cognitively demanding to process and transfer information …

Understanding screen media—even television—can be a challenging task that requires
substantial cognitive effort, especially for young children with relatively limited cognitive …

Although prior research clearly shows that toddlers have difficulty learning from video, the
basis for their difficulty is unknown. In the 2 current experiments, the effect of social feedback …

Young children often learn less from video than face‐to‐face presentations. Meta‐
regression models were used to examine the average size of this difference (video deficit) …

Social cues are one way young children determine that a situation is pedagogical in nature—
containing information to be learned and generalized. However, some social cues (eg …

Television comprehension is a surprisingly demanding task for very young children. Based
on a task analysis of television viewing and review of research, we suggest that by 6 months …

This paper offers an overview of research on infants' early behavior toward televised
images, followed by an account of the development of representational competence with …

Imitation of people on educational television is a potential way for very young children to
learn new skills. Although toddlers in previous studies exhibited a “video deficit” in learning …

Young children exhibit a video deficit for spatial recall, learning less from on‐screen than in‐
person demonstrations. Some theoretical accounts emphasize memory constraints (eg …

We report on a study in which 4‐to 6‐year‐olds were presented with a sticker‐retrieval task
and asked to choose between one of two tools they could use to complete it. One of the tools …