http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2537240/Children-watch-TV-damaged-brain-structures.html
After reading the article, answer the following questions:
1. What part of the brain does viewing too much TV most affect?
2. Besides the TV viewing, what other factors that are mentioned may directly or indirectly affect brain development?
3. How much TV did you watch as a child? Do you believe that it has affected you in any way? How about your friends or siblings?
Ava Travis
ReplyDelete1. Watching too much TV affects the frontopolar cortex of your brain.
2. Some other things that might affect brain development are reading, playing sports or spending time with friends and family.
3. As a child and still to this day I d not watch a lot of TV. I feel as though it has affected me in a positive way and allows me to be able to focus more which have helped my grades. For my brother, a person who spends a lot of his time watching TV, it has affected him in a negative way. He would rather watch TV than trying to study which have affected his grades.
1. The frontopolar cortex area of the brain
ReplyDelete2. Reading, playing sports, or family and friends interacts could also affect the brain's development.
3. I used to have watched TV for about four to six hours a day usually, now only about two. I don't think that it has affected me or my way of thinking. I wouldn't know about my friends, but my sister seems to be obsessed with Dr. Phil and The Doctor now. So, maybe that's something.
~Celena Miller
Taryn Dockery-
ReplyDeleteThe area of the brain that watching too much television most affect the frontopolar cortex, the front part of the frontal lobe. Other factors that may also be to blame for this are missing out on reading, sports, and talking to friends or family members. When I was little, I was only inside when it was raining or I was at school. I loved to play outside, and hated staying inside all day because I got bored easily, and when I was outside I would run and play and do whatever I wanted, and my little sister is the same way. I don’t think it has affected me, but if it has, I don’t think it affected me in a negative way.
1. Viewing too much television affects the frontopolar cortex of the brain.
ReplyDelete2. Learning a musical instrument showed to improve brain activity.
3. I didn't watch as much television coming up because i was always outside and was involved in many activities. I don't think there is a significant affect on my brain. On the other hand my siblings are a little more attached to the television than I am, although, I don't see anything wrong with them. - Frankie Malveo
1.)frontopolar cortex
ReplyDelete2.) Playing a musical instrument
3.) I never really watched all that much TV as a child, but what I did watch I do believe could have affected me. Some of my friends that aren't as intelligent watch a lot more TV than I do/did. -Tanner 5/6th
1. The frontopolar cortex, or the area at the front of the frontal lobe.
ReplyDelete2. It is not proven, but missing out on sports, reading, or not spending time with friends or family because of watching TV, or it may be TV alone to blame.
3.I didn't really watch TV that often as a kid. I don't think watching TV really affects you as much as these scientists believe.
-Dillon Baker
Too much TV can effect the frontopolar cortex, but also missing out on reading, playing sports, or interacting with friends and family. I didn't watch a whole lot of TV as a child so, I'm not sure if it would have affected me or not. I don't think watching TV really affects your verbal abilities.
ReplyDelete~Blake E. Lockridge
Hannah Jackson
ReplyDelete1.) The part of the brain that is affected the most is the frontopolar cortex (area in the front of the frontal lobe.)
2.) The other factors are reading, playing sports, interacting with friends and family, and learning to play an instrument.
3.) As a child I watched about 2 hours and I don't beileve it has affected me that much. I also don't think it has affected my friends or family.
Kailee Post
ReplyDelete1. The frontopolar cortex.
2. Missing out on activities such as reading, playing sports or interacting with friends and family.
3. I watched about the average amount of TV as the average American child, I believe. I watched a fair amount of Spongebob and have read various times that it was proven that it caused learning problems for some children, but I don't believe it messed me up too bad. Unless, of course, there is a chance I was a born genius and Spongebob ruined my chances of finding the cure for cancer and I'll never know.
Kayla Compton
ReplyDelete1 - the frontopolar cortex
2 - reading, playing sports, and interacting with friends and family
3 - as a child i watched a lot of TV and i do not feel like it has negatively affected me. my cousins have watched a lot of tv, and i do believe it has affected them, but not in their brain development
The part of the brain that is most affected by television is the frontopolar cortex. Other factors that could effect the brain from developing are things like sports and other outside activities. I personally did not watch that much T.V. as a child. My sister on the other hand is nine years old and she watches an abnormal amount of television. I do not think this has effected either one of us in any way for my sister is already doing far more advanced things than I was at that age. I do not think that T.V. has effected us negatively although I do wonder if it has helped her or if she is naturally smarter than me.
ReplyDelete~Taylor Burge
1. Frontopolar cortex
ReplyDelete2. Reading, playing sports or interacting with friends and family
3. I did not watch much TV when I was a child. I mostly was outside, and did not have a TV in my room until I was about 11. I do not watch a lot of TV, but it is probably because I never watched it when I was younger. So I think it had a positive affect on me.
-Abby Cooper
The frontopolar cortex is the part of a child brain that is most affected by TV. Scientist although are not sure if it is the TV viewing or the time spent away from actively reading and playing sports that directly or indirectly affects the neurocognitive development of children. As a child I believe that I watched around 7 to 10hours a week of TV, I think that it has had no negative effects on me however I do believe that too much TV could possibly be a bad thing. My sister I presume also had no negative effects from TV, nor my other family and friends.
ReplyDelete-Brandon Appling
The part of the brain that viewing TV most affects is the frontopolar cortex. Other factors that may directly or indirectly affect brain development are; the lack of reading, playing sports, and interacting with friends and family. I watched too much TV I do not want too even say how much, I regret it a lot because I could have spent that time doing something productive or fun. I believe that it did kind of affect me because I could be smarter if I read books instead of watching TV. Also I could have spent more time with friends and be more social. I do think it somewhat does affected my friends and family.
ReplyDeleteJane Frances Armour
The frontopolar cortex, which is at the front of the frontal lobe, is the part of the brain that viewing TV affects the most. Besides the TV viewing, missing out on activities like reading or playing outside either with or without friends or family may directly or indirectly affect brain development. I watched a lot of TV as a child, but I don't think that affected me in any way. My friends and siblings also watched a lot of TV, but they are all very smart so I don't think that it affected them either.
ReplyDelete~Heather Williams
1. The Frontopolar Cortex
ReplyDelete2. Lack of reading, playing sports, and interactions with family and friends
3. I watched a moderate amount of tv. However, I was deeply interested in dinosaurs and space. This didn't affect me in a negative way (that I know of), it actually helped me further my knowledge and interest in learning. My younger siblings have had an affect by tv however. I believe that their area of interests have been greatly hindered. They seem to care more about the technology and social status that they have rather than the education they get. I believe more harm is done to the child through the quality of they program they watch, not the amount they watch.
- Luke Yarbrough
1. The part of the brain affected by watching too much TV was the frontopolar cortex.
ReplyDelete2. Other factors that were mentioned were playing sports, spending time with family and friends, and reading.
3. I watched a moderate amount of TV as a child and I don't believe that it affected me or any of my siblings or friends.
-Jordan Moore
Abby Ingle
ReplyDelete1. It has the greatest effect on the frontopolar cortex.
2. Missing out on social activities and sports because of TV.
3. About 2 hours a day, and I don't think it has affected me or my siblings.
The part of the brain that viewing too much TV has the most affect in is the frontopolar cortex (front of the frontal lobe of the brain). Other factors that are mentioned that directly or indirectly affect brain development are missing out on activities like reading, playing sports or interacting with friends and family. I watched more TV than the average child probably should have. I do not think that it affected me in any specific way that harms may brain though. I think that my brother grew up with less TV than I did because we are not the same age, he is older, but I don't think it harmed him or I at all.
ReplyDelete-Jordan Tatum
Katelyn Hardy-
ReplyDeleteThe part of the brain that watching TV affects the most is around the frontopolar cortex. Other than watching TV, missing out on activities such as playing sports, reading, or interacting with family and friends could also possibly be factors that might affect brain development. As a child I did watch a lot of TV, but it seems that as I've gotten older, I don't watch it as much because of the fact that I have a lot of work to do, but half the time, there isn't much on to watch anyways. Not to say that I don't watch it, though, because I do. I don't believe that it has really affected me in any way. Some of my friends, however, are hooked on TV shows and they can hardly wait for the next episode to come out! So to conclude, I don't think TV is a bad thing if you don't watch it too much.
1. Viewing TV mainly affects the frontopolar cortex in the brain. In other words, the area at the front of the frontal lobe.
ReplyDelete2. Other factors that directly or indirectly affect brain development include learning a musical instrument, reading, playing sports, and interacting with friends and/or family.
3. As a child i watched a lot of TV, around 2 and a half hours a day. Yes i believe it has affected me in the sense that i can no longer do my homework in silence, i always have to be listening to something. I cannot tell if it has affected my friends or brother, however my dad always has to have the TV on at certain points of the day.
Victoria Jones
1. Frontopolar Cortex is the area of the brain mostly affected by too much TV.
ReplyDelete2. Lack of reading, playing sports, or interacting with family and friends, are other factors that could possibly directly, or indirectly, affect brain development.
3. I watched around 2-3 hours of TV a day as a kid, and do not believe it has affected me in any way. I do believe, though, that too much TV could affect your sleeping patterns, and this especially in younger kids.
- Carli Colburn
1. It leads to more grey matter in the regions around the frontopolar cortex area of the brain- towards the front and side of the head.
ReplyDelete2. Neurocognitive development.
3. I didn't watch too much TV as a kid. I don't believe it has affected me. I don't think TV has affected any of my friends or siblings.
- Grace Glasscock
The part of the brain affected the most by too much TV is the frontopolar cortex which is located in the frontal lobe. Whether or not a child has other activities is not proven to be a cause, but it could correlate. As a child I watched tons of tv. I loved cartoons and music videos, and I even knew Spanish from watching Telemundo and Dora. I don't hink it has affected me in any way that I can see. I believe a lot of my friends and siblings also watched a lot of tv, and all of them seem to be perfectly fine.
ReplyDelete~Laura Coats
Viewing too much TV most affects the fronotpolar cortex region of the brain. Besides watching TV, missing out on activities such as reading, playing sports or interacting with friends and family as a result of watching TV may affect brain development. I have never watched much TV. Usually none but occasionally up to an hour and a half. I don’t think that this has had any major effects on me and i also don’t think that TV has had any noticeable effects on my friends or family.
ReplyDeleteJohn McDonough
Viewing too much TV affects the frontopolar cortex area of the brain. Missing out on activities such as reading, playing sports, or interacting with friends and family could affect the brain also. As a child I watched about 30 minutes a day. I think it made me more creative as I grow older. My brother watched around the same as me and has made him creative also.
ReplyDelete1. It leads to more grey matter in the regions around the frontopolar cortex area of the brain - towards the front and side of the head
ReplyDelete2. Neurocognitive development
3. When i was a child i didn't really watch a lot of TV. I don't think that it has affected me in any way. I think that it has become addicting to some of my family but it hasn't really affected any of my friends. -Hannah Glasscock
Kryana Brown
ReplyDelete1) The frontopolar cortex of the brain
2)They miss out on activities such as reading, playing outdoors/sports, ans interacting with people.
3)As a young child I watched educational TV shows. I would often choose to play with my dolls instead.
mills harrison
ReplyDelete1.frontopolar-cortex
2.missing out on activities such as reading,sports, or interacting with family
3.i wached a littel bit but not that much. i belive it can in some ways like by effecting your eyes and mental skills.My friends wach a good bit of tv and so do my siblings.
Alexander Holliday
ReplyDelete1. Television damages the frontopolar cortex 2. Missing out on activities such as reading, interacting with friends or family, and playing sports. 3. I watched quite a bit of tv when I was little. I think it may have affected me a little bit, but not that much. I think some of them may have been affected.
Watching too much TV affects the frontpolar cortex of the brain by having larger amounts of grey matter in them. Reading, playing sports, or interacting with friends can also affect brain development. As a child, I actually did not watch too much TV. I think what I did watch made me have a better imagination. Lastly, I do not think it has really affected my friends and family too much.
ReplyDelete-Abby Nelson
1. Frontopolar cortex of the brain.
ReplyDelete2. Not reading, playing sports, or interacting with friend and family.
3. As a child I didn't watch much TV because I was always outside or reading. I think that reading instead of watching so much TV has helped me to go further in school. Everyone around me grew up playing outside or reading so I think that TV hasn't affected them much also.
- Destinee Ferrell
#1 The frontopolar vortex
ReplyDelete#2 Reading and spending time with friends and family
#3 I didn't watch very much TV as a child, I was playing outside or with dolls most of the time. so I don't think it has effected me very much.
My family was the same way. But most of my friends were glued to the TV when we were younger, but I don't notice anything that the article mentioned affecting them.
-Brooke Allen