The study was conducted with 60 4-year-old boys and girls. Children have been given cartoons for only nine minutes, but even nine minutes have seen their consequences. Some kids have been given quick-paced drawings, others with slower plane changes, and they've been followed by tasks like building the Hanoi Tower, ordering smaller and smaller pieces of different sizes, and the results have been "significantly worse" among those who have seen rapid-paced cartoons. The attention, memory, frustration, self-regulation of rabies and mental flexibility have been perceived by the children of this group, at least in moments after the observation of the cartoons.

The research was done a few years ago, but the child psychologist Alberto Soler comments on social media and puts the issue back on the table. Soler says that at 4 years of age “the brain is developing and has limited information processing capacity. If you have to respond to a bombing of stimuli that ask for mental resources, the child will no longer have enough resources for other tasks because the brain has ended fatigue."

Before, slower

Soler warns of the importance of putting content according to the maturity of the child to avoid excessive sensory estimates that the child is not yet ready for consumption and management. However, when you’re accustomed to the frenetic and noisy pace of today’s audio-visual, it’s often difficult to see content at a slower pace.

Soler proposes to families an experiment to tell in a minute how many plane changes the cartoons their children consume. He's given examples: Bob Belaki's drawings, which beat children, have 35 plane changes per minute, and Paw Patrol, 25 plane changes, it's a lot, while older drawings, Pocoyo and Tom and Jerry, have only 8 plane changes on average in a minute.