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Playing with dolls has been part of growing up for hundreds of years, but now technology is replacing that tradition. And this trend begs the question: Could technology-enhanced toys and games be an impediment to intellectual enhancement? Perhaps, says Temple psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. "Children have to learn about social interaction — the give and take of how we communicate with each other and how we get along and do team building. They have to learn about the physics of the world and how it operates. And you just can't do that when you are constrained by a mouse and screen."