feb 1, 2011 - Lillard and Peterson Publish Fast-Paced Cartoon Study

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A landmark controlled experiment proved that watching just nine minutes of a fast-paced fantasy cartoon impaired executive function in four-year-olds immediately afterward, measurably degrading attention, working memory, and impulse control. It isolated rapid scene changes and fantastical content as a specific causal mechanism of short-term cognitive harm, providing the most direct scientific indictment of the formal features that had dominated children's television since deregulation.

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