Zero to eight : young children and their internet use

EU Kids Online has spent seven years investigating 9-16 year olds’ engagement with the internet, focusing on the benefits and risks of children’s internet use. While this meant examining the experiences of much younger children than had been researched before EU Kids Online began its work in 2006, there is now a critical need for information about the internet-related behaviours of 0-8 year olds. EU Kids Online’s research shows that children are now going online at a younger and younger age, and that young children’s “lack of technical, critical and social skills may pose [a greater] risk” (Livingstone et al, 2011, p. 3).peer-reviewe

The Effect of Objecthood on Processing Efficiency

The term objecthood is used to convey the degree of image regularity in terms of properties such as closure, symmetry and parallelism. The notion of objecthood is evaluated in the light of the existing psychological data on sensory-driven biases of attentional selection. Extending the biased competition for selection framework, we tested if higher objecthood of the image modulates its salience and exerts influence on the efficiency of its processing. In a series of three experiments, it is demonstrated that the presence of closure significantly impacts processing efficiency of the presented visual stimuli