Did screen reading steal children's focus? Longitudinal associations between reading habits, selective attention and text comprehension

We tested the assumption that selective attention (students’ ability to focuson relevant information and to ignore distractors) may mediate the relation betweenprint and digital reading habits and comprehension in a longitudinal study thatanalysed 654 fourth and 635 fifth grade students at the end of their school year (T1)and 1 year later (T2).