Researchers from the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck Collge, University of London, tested more than 40 children at 11-months-old for their concentration abilities.
One group of children participated in 77 minutes of computerised concentration training, computer games devised by the researchers that react differently depending on where the infant is looking. Children who took part in this training were rewarded for looking in just one place and resisting the urge to look somewhere else.
Another group of children spent the same amount of time watching age appropriate television programmes.
The findings indicated that the children who took part in the concentration training had an improved ability to sustain their attention compared to the children who watched television.
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