Family-based training program improves brain function, cognition, and behavior in lower socioeconomic status preschoolers

HJ Neville, C Stevens, E Pakulak… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Using information from research on the neuroplasticity of selective attention and on the
central role of successful parenting in child development, we developed and rigorously …

The importance of parenting during early childhood for school-age development

SH Landry, KE Smith, PR Swank - Developmental …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
This study reports on the relation of 4 patterns of responsive parenting across early
childhood (birth-4 1.2 years) with children's rate of cognitive and social development through …

Differences in the neural mechanisms of selective attention in children from different socioeconomic backgrounds: an event‐related brain potential study

C Stevens, B Lauinger, H Neville - Developmental science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research indicates that children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds show
deficits in aspects of attention, including a reduced ability to filter irrelevant information and …

Baby and the brain: Advances in child development

JA DiPietro - Annual Review of Public Health, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract As child morbidity and mortality declined during the twentieth century, a
corresponding increase occurred in the relevance of child psychological well-being to public …

Attentional control and executive functioning in school-aged children: Linking self-regulation and parenting strategies

AM Spruijt, MC Dekker, TB Ziermans… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Good parenting strategies can shape children's neurocognitive development, yet little is
known about the nature of this relation in school-aged children and whether this association …

Applying cognitive training to target executive functions during early development

SV Wass - Child Neuropsychology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Developmental psychopathology is increasingly recognizing the importance of
distinguishing causal processes (ie, the mechanisms that cause a disease) from …

New Brain Development Research--A Wonderful Window of Opportunity To Build Public Support for Early Childhood Education!.

JJ Newberger - Young Children, 1997 - ERIC
Examines implications of public interest in findings on brain development for building
support for high-quality early childhood education. Discusses how children learn, neural …

Parental incentives and early childhood achievement: A field experiment in Chicago heights

RG Fryer, SD Levitt, JA List - 2015 - nber.org
This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided
financial incentives to engage in behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive …

Characterizing preschool children's attention regulation in parent–child interactions: The roles of effortful control and motivation

RC Harris, JB Robinson, F Chang, BM Burns - Journal of Applied …, 2007 - Elsevier
This study examined relations among effortful control, motivation, and attention regulation in
preschoolers within the context of parent–child interactions. Sixty-one low-income children …

Developing brain networks of attention

MI Posner, MK Rothbart, P Voelker - Current opinion in pediatrics, 2016 - journals.lww.com
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