WILTIMS #135: A busy day in the life of me

Today was a busy day. Here's the rundown:

• 3 hours of lecture
• Behavioral science on childhood development
• Lunch
• Neuroanatomy lab
• Poking brains and reading MRIs
• Pick-up soccer game
• Playing with upperclassmen and a surgeon from the medical center
• Surgery interest club
• Literature review (and free food) in the surgery lab at the hospital

Last night my apartment also hosted a late season interviewee, which was a nice reminder of how lucky we are to have made it to this stage.

TIL: Sigmund Freud never actually studied any children when coming up with his theories on child development. Take from this what you will...

Object permanence and object constancy are slightly different concepts. Permanence is the acknowledgement that objects exist even when unobserved (i.e. "Where'd the ball go?" gets much less interesting). Object permanence usually develops between 8 months and 1 year of age.* Constancy is the maintenance of a consistent mental idea of an object or person (e.g. Mom is Mom not some random lady).

* Amusingly, object permanence was debatable in my college-level intro to philosophy class. How can you be certain that all of existence doesn't disappear when you aren't sensing it?