Everything you've wanted to know about object permanence, including how to help your baby develop this skill. If you have ever played a game of peek-a-boo with your baby or hidden a toy under a ...

"I kept seeing group shows in New York, and was wondering, 'Why is this not happening here?'" Leah Ring, co-curator of the new show "Object Permanence," recalls. Ring is the Los Angeles–based designer ...

The work of Jean Piaget shaped our understanding of cognitive development in children, and it also gave us several tasks that we can use to study other animals. One classic issue studied by Piaget is ...

“Certain objects,” Dinah Lenney writes, “not always the ones we’d expect to keep or remember or dream about, insinuate themselves—take on a lustre in which we are reflected.” It’s quite the thought to ...

Things continue to exist even when we can’t see them, but until we’re old enough to understand that notion, it’s out of sight, out of mind. Object permanence is one of those things we figure out when ...

Object permanence, as many will remember from college psychology class, refers to the understanding that things and people continue to exist even when you can’t see or hear them. First documented by ...

I recently was asked to give a lecture concerning various styles of communication, with a focus on one of the following topics: "communicating with young children" or "communicating with colleagues." ...

Adam Luchies is a Movies and TV News Writer for Collider. He began writing for Collider in November 2021. Adam graduated from Grand Valley State University with a Bachelors Degree in Multimedia ...

Babies begin to develop an understanding of object permanence as young as four months old. If a yellow ball is shown to a child, placed behind a curtain and taken away before the curtain is pulled ...