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Texting Makes Kids More Impulsive A report from Telegraph.co.uk has highlighted new research on children who use predictive texting on their mobile phones. Researchers found that kids who use a lot of predictive texting are more prone to impulsiveness and failing to think things through.

Scientists believe that the act of just hitting a key and then seeing the whole word teaches children to act fast without thinking first. This appears to lead to inaccuracy in other areas of life.

The groundbreaking study was led by Professor Michael Abramson. He analysed how children aged between 11 and 14 used their mobile phones together with tests on their ability to perform in various tests on computer.

It was found that one quarter of the children wrote more than 20 text messages a week and one quarter made more than 15 voice calls.

The researchers studied the correlation between the way children handled IQ type tests and their use of their mobile phones. They found that the way the childrens’ brains functioned was linked to extended use of their mobiles.

An epidemiologist at Monash University, Melbourne, Professor Abramson said: “The kids who used their phones a lot were faster on some of the tests, but were less accurate. We suspect that using mobile phones a lot, particularly tools like predictive texts for SMS, is training them to be fast but inaccurate.”

The professor explained that due to the fact that the children’s brains are still developing, further repercussions resulting from exposure to mobile phone tools such as predictive texting for SMS could result. This could mean they could be fast but inaccurate in other areas of life. He said that mobile phones were changing the way children learn and leading to them behaving more impulsively.


Industry News posted by Romany on 12 August 2009

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