TV noise associated with fewer verbal interactions between infants and parents

Monday, June 1, 2009 - 15:49 in Psychology & Sociology

For every hour they spend in the presence of an audible television, parents speak fewer words and infants are less likely to make vocalizations in response, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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