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An enhanced eBook facilitates parent–child talk during shared reading by families of low socioeconomic status

Promoting Preschoolers’ Emotional Competence Through Prosocial TV and Mobile App Use

Co-viewing supports toddlers’ word learning from contingent and noncontingent video

Let’s Chat: On-Screen Social Responsiveness Is Not Sufficient to Support Toddlers’ Word Learning From Video

All tapped out: Touchscreen interactivity and young children’s word learning

Georgene Troseth's research focuses on young children's symbolic development, including their understanding of representational artifacts and media (pictures, video images, touchscreens, video chat and scale models). Current research involves designing an avatar in an eBook, using Artificial Intelligence, to support parents' use of "dialogic questioning" while reading picture books with their children. Troseth is specifically interested in children's representations of the mental states — intentions, beliefs, desires, and knowledge — of other people.

Dialogic Questioning

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iPad

Child Development

Developmental Science

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Children and Youth

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Kids Are Growing Up Wired — And That's Changing Their Brains

How to manage kids' screen time during coronavirus isolation

Why your toddler can’t learn from a screen

School Bans Harry Potter

Toddler Learning Videos Don’t Work Because Young Brains Don’t Get Screens

Raised by YouTube

Why I use Harry Potter to teach a college course on child development

The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With YouTube

No Snapchat In The Bedroom? An Online Tool To Manage Kids' Media Use

Screen Rules For Your Baby

Associate Professor of Psychology

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