{"id":1810165,"date":"2023-01-18T20:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810165"},"modified":"2023-01-18T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:23:11","slug":"virtual-communication-could-impair-childhood-brain-development-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virtual-communication-could-impair-childhood-brain-development-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Communication Could Impair Childhood Brain Development, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirtual-communication-could-impair-childhood-brain-development-study-suggests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A recent study thAt compared children\u2019s brain activity between face-to-face interaction and virtual interaction found that electrical activity in the brain is significantly reduced during virtual social interaction, suggesting impairments to childhood cognitive and social development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/brain-development-tech-communication-22285\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neuroscience News reported<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1053811922007984?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> This study examined interactions between 62 mother\/child pairs, both in person and virtual. The study included children ranging in age from 10-14 years old. Researchers used hyperscanning to simultaneously scan brain activity in multiple subjects. They found that brain activity decreased during virtual interaction via videoconferencing, particularly brain sync between mothers and children.<\/p>\n<p>Guillaume Dumas, the author of the study and a professor at the University of Montreal&#8217;s Department of Psychiatry and Addiction, demonstrated earlier in life that electrical waves within the human brain can synchronize in social interactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInter-brain synchrony is associated with the development of social cognition,\u201d Dumas said. \u201cThe resonance between brains enables children to learn to distinguish between self and others, to learn social relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1053811922007984?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> That \u201clive interaction elicited nine significant cross-brain links between densely inter-connected frontal and temporal areas,\u201d While \u201cremote interaction elicited only one significant cross-brain-cross-hemisphere link.\u201d The brain&#8217;s frontal region is <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/body\/24501-frontal-lobe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">associated<\/a> With critical thinking, emotions and personality. The temporal lobe (also known as the temporal lobe) is <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/diseases\/16799-brain-temporal-lobe-vagal-nerve--frontal-lobe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">associated<\/a> Short-term memory and auditory processing.<\/p>\n<p>With the disruption to brain-to-brain synchrony, consequences for children\u2019s cognitive development can be expected, especially as it pertains to the brain functions associated with social interaction, according to Dumas. \u201cAnd these are life-long effects,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The study&#8217;s conclusions raise questions about the effectiveness of online learning for teens and children. According to the study, the shift to online learning during the COVID epidemic could have many consequences for children. It is possible that the consequences could be virtually incalculable.<\/p>\n<p>Dumas pointed out that the question of how the pandemic has affected the social development of children&#8217;s lives is a pertinent one. \u201cimportant \u2026 but difficult to answer, given that the full effects won\u2019t be known for 10, 15 or 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted primarily with children but the author stated that it could be applied to adults. What has been called &#8220;brain synchrony&#8221; in virtual interactions is likely to be caused by a lack of brain synciness. \u201cZoom fatigue.\u201d Virtual interactions can cause fatigue more often than real ones because they can appear to be. \u201cmore laborious and less natural,\u201d Dumas said.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers conclude that further research is required to determine the effect of virtual social interaction on the human maturation process. The results also indicate that there are many exciting questions to be answered about neurobiology and brain-to-brain synchroy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study that compared children\u2019s brain activity between face-to-face interaction and virtual interaction found that electrical activity in the brain is significantly reduced during virtual social interaction, suggesting impairments to childhood cognitive and social development. Neuroscience News reported a study that analyzed the interactions between 62 mother-child pairs, both face-to-face and virtually. 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