It’s probably of little surprise that exposure to digital media can affect emotional processing. However, new research reveals that it may also shape how children’s senses develop.
A new study links heavy media use starting as young as a year old with atypical sensory processing down the road. That means that how kids take in stimuli through their sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch can lead to deficits or hypersensitivities.
What Is Sensory Processing?
Sensory processing allows seamless communication between brain and body. Our senses take in information—the colors of a flag, the feel of a blanket, the taste of chocolate—and shuttle it to the brain for interpretation and action, if necessary.
A.C. Dahnke
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A.C. Dahnke is a freelance writer and editor residing in California. She has covered community journalism and health care news for nearly a decade, winning a California Newspaper Publishers Award for her work.
