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Excessive television viewing is associated with lower cognitive test performance.
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Multiple recent longitudinal and empirical studies support the association between excessive screen time (including television viewing) and lower cognitive test performance, executive dysfunction, and reduced academic achievement in youth.

Evidence for · 6
The relationship and mechanism of screen time and academic performance among adolescents: an empirical study based on CEPS.
2025 · cited by 3
Paper [0] demonstrates that higher screen time among adolescents is significantly correlated with lower academic test scores, with cognitive performance acting as a key mediating pathway.
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A robust body of recent longitudinal and survey-based research consistently indicates that excessive screen time and television viewing are associated with lower cognitive performance, poorer executive function, and reduced academic outcomes among children and adolescents. The retrieved papers consistently support this relationship without contradictory findings regarding overall cognitive performance, leading to a verdict of SUPPORTED.

More for · 5
Associations of Sleep, Screen Time, and Extracurricular Activities With Cognitive Development: A Longitudinal Study
2025 · cited by 1
Paper [4] finds that greater screen usage, particularly passive watching, is significantly associated with smaller increases in cognitive test scores over time in adolescents.
Young children's screen time, executive functions, and language development: Longitudinal moderation of parent/child coviewing and media content.
2026 · cited by 0
Paper [6] establishes that higher screen time at age 2 predicts poorer performance on executive function tasks and lower language test scores at age 4.
Associations between early childhood experiences in outdoor play, risky play and screen time, and children's developmental health outcomes in kindergarten in British Columbia.
2026 · cited by 0
Paper [7] shows that increased early screen time is associated with higher developmental vulnerability across cognitive and other health domains in kindergarten.
Screen exposure and emotion regulation abilities in 5-6-year-old children: a moderated mediation model.
2026 · cited by 0
Paper [10] indicates that higher screen exposure in young children is associated with lower emotion regulation abilities, partially mediated by executive function.
Family environments and daily activities shape children's executive function: Cross-ethnic evidence from a multicultural Asian society.
2026 · cited by 0
Paper [11] finds that lower screen time resulting from consistent parental rule-setting predicts stronger executive functioning in children.
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first checked04 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 7904 Aug 2026
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