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 ...

If babies weren’t so smart, they’d be incredibly dumb. The baby brain is perhaps the world’s greatest learning machine, but it starts out almost entirely empty — particularly concerning the basic way ...

Object permanence begins at around 4 months of age and is complete at around 12 months of age. What is object permanence? Simply put, it is the ability to understand that people or objects exist even ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Gibbons have been historically overlooked in the field of comparative social and physical cognition. This study investigated the cognitive ...

“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 ...