Why Is It Important To Play Peek-A-Boo?

Peek-a-boo is a game that most parents and/or caregivers will play with their babies. It stimulates the baby’s senses, builds gross motor skills, strengthens their visual tracking, and encourages their social development. Most babies will develop this at around the age of 3-5 months. It signals that the baby is making leaps in cognitive development- in their memory and ability to think abstractly. When the caregiver plays peek-a-boo with the baby, they first cover their eyes and then remove their hands from their eyes and reveal their face. Most babies will be fascinated by this because they are starting to understand that objects and people can still exist even though they can’t see them. This is considered a big milestone in a baby’s development because it requires a great deal of thinking and use of the brain to …show more content…
Essentially for the dendrites to do their job, the axon is required. The axon is part of the neuron that carries electrical impulses away from the cell body. So when playing peek-a-boo that information is registered through a baby's brain where the axon then carries those electrical impulses all the way to the dendrites (which act as neurotransmitters received from other neurons. After the caregiver has been pulling away their hands away and to their face consistentely, that information is sent through the axon all the way through to the dendrites which then leads to the axon terminal. The axon terminals purpose is that it branches where the neurotransmitter is realeased as an electrical impulse to another neuron. This is done so because when the baby is processing this it has to go through many more neurons, not just