The neuroscience of socioeconomic inequality

KG Noble, MA Giebler - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Socioeconomic disparities in brain structure and function are prevalent.•The
mechanisms that may underlie disparities in brain development are discussed.•Future steps …

[HTML][HTML] Overspending, debt, and poverty

A Achtziger - Current opinion in psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, financial hardship arising from overspending and over-indebtedness, and often
leading to poverty, strongly hampers peoples' life satisfaction, well-being, and health. Going …

[HTML][HTML] The neurodevelopment of executive function skills: Implications for academic achievement gaps.

PD Zelazo, SM Carlson - Psychology & Neuroscience, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Introduction: Executive function (EF) skills emerge in infancy and typically become more
effective and efficient throughout childhood and adolescence and into early adulthood …

Association of prenatal exposure to early-life adversity with neonatal brain volumes at birth

RL Triplett, RE Lean, A Parikh, JP Miller… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Exposure to early-life adversity alters the structural development of key brain
regions underlying neurodevelopmental impairments. The association between prenatal …

Brain network coupling associated with cognitive performance varies as a function of a child's environment in the ABCD study

ME Ellwood-Lowe, S Whitfield-Gabrieli… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prior research indicates that lower resting-state functional coupling between two brain
networks, lateral frontoparietal network (LFPN) and default mode network (DMN), relates to …

Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool

RR Romeo, JC Flournoy, KA McLaughlin… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is related to disparities in the development of both
language and executive functioning (EF) skills. Emerging evidence suggests that language …

Positive economic, psychosocial, and physiological ecologies predict brain structure and cognitive performance in 9–10-year-old children

MR Gonzalez, CE Palmer, KA Uban… - Frontiers in human …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
While low socioeconomic status (SES) introduces risk for developmental outcomes among
children, there are an array of proximal processes that determine the ecologies and thus the …

A systematic overview of meta-analyses on socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, and achievement: The need to focus on specific pathways

KM Korous, JM Causadias, RH Bradley… - Psychological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Meta-analyses on the relation between socioeconomic status (SES) and performance on
measures of cognitive ability and achievement arrive at the same general conclusion of a …

Neural correlates of socioeconomic status in early childhood: a systematic review of the literature

L Olson, B Chen, I Fishman - Child Neuropsychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
It is now established that socioeconomic variables are associated with cognitive, academic
achievement, and psychiatric outcomes. Recent years have shown the advance in our …

Ethnoracial disparities in cognition are associated with multiple socioeconomic status-stress pathways

SK Letang, SSH Lin, PA Parmelee… - … Research: Principles and …, 2021 - Springer
Systemic racism can have broad impacts on health in ethnoracial minorities. One way is by
suppressing socioeconomic status (SES) levels through barriers to achieve higher income …