If you’ve ever played peekaboo with your little one, you’ve helped them work on object permanence. Your baby is learning that people and objects exist even when they can’t see or hear them. Object ...

You might have heard about object permanence as a developmental milestone for babies. But what is it, exactly? Object permanence is the concept that an object exists even if you can't see it. For ...

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent. Human babies are far ...

Imagine walking down a crowded New York City sidewalk and hearing a shout, “Hey, watch out!” Do you stop? How might you know for whom this signal is intended? Now let’s imagine that your name is Max.

Babies lose interest in situations that are too complex or too simple. May 24, 2012 — -- Not too simple and not too complicated: Babies focus their attention on situations that are "just right," ...

For decades linguists have argued over how children learn language. Some think that babies are born as “blank slates” who pick up language simply from experience—hearing, seeing and playing with the ...