>excessive screen time early in life can change the circuits in a growing brain
Any activity changes the brain. Also, as BurningFrog points out, "rewires" is a metaphorical term and therefore vague. Ditto "circuits".
>mice
...aren't human.
> But it also meant they acted like they had an attention deficit disorder
Such disorders are pretty loosely defined. Something "like" such a disorder is vaguer still. And, again, these are mice for goodness sake.
>In a video game, he said, you can meet the equivalent of a lion every few seconds.
No you can't. Lions are dangerous!
>our understanding of how sensory stimulation affects developing brains.
We're not passive. We decide what to pay attention to. Thus we can't be stimulated arbitrarily by the environment. Actually I think this is assumed by the contradictory concept of "attention deficit", elsewhere in the piece.
Any activity changes the brain. Also, as BurningFrog points out, "rewires" is a metaphorical term and therefore vague. Ditto "circuits".
>mice
...aren't human.
> But it also meant they acted like they had an attention deficit disorder
Such disorders are pretty loosely defined. Something "like" such a disorder is vaguer still. And, again, these are mice for goodness sake.
>In a video game, he said, you can meet the equivalent of a lion every few seconds.
No you can't. Lions are dangerous!
>our understanding of how sensory stimulation affects developing brains.
We're not passive. We decide what to pay attention to. Thus we can't be stimulated arbitrarily by the environment. Actually I think this is assumed by the contradictory concept of "attention deficit", elsewhere in the piece.