When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When parents describe the size and shape of objects to their preschool children and the kids then ...

We welcome guest bloggers Tamara Toub, Postdoctoral Fellow, Temple University; Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Professor of Psychology, Temple University and Senior Fellow Brookings Institution; Roberta Michnick ...

A six-year-old girl pauses for a moment at a small table in the spatial skills lab in Beecher Hall before confidently telling her father: “I have a little secret in putting puzzles together. The buddy ...

Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, researchers have found. The study ...