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Socioeconomic Status and the Brain - Michael Thomas

• The effects of socioeconomic status on behavior is that they are uneven across different abilities

• Temporal regions of the brain

  • are involved in language processing

• Frontal regions of the brain

  • are involved in executive function

• Hvernig umhverfið hefur áhrif á heilann skipt í 3

  • prenatal effect

    • í móðurkviði- næring, stress, reykingar

  • postnatal parenting

    • the relationship between parent and child and the nurturing that is happening

  • cognitive stimulation

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• ADHD og Dyslexia- horft til prenatal effects

• More behavioral problems- horft til early parenting og nurturing

• Difference in language- horft til stimulation in the environment

2. Dr. Martha Farah, Penn Media Seminar on Neuroscience and Society

• My brain made me do it

• Spirituality and religion

The Right to Cognitive Liberty

• Attempts to decode mental information via imaging are also occurring in court cases

• commercial companies are marketing the use of functional MRI and electroencephalography-based technology to ascertain truth and falsehood

• the University of Oxford suggests that the same vulnerability applies to brain implants, leading to the possibility of a phenomenon called brain jacking

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How does income affect childhood brain development? (myndband)

• The surface area of the cerebral cortex does the most cognitive heavy-lifting

• past work suggests that a larger cortical surface area is often associated with higher intelligence

• they found one factor that was associated with the cortical surface area across nearly the entire surface of the brain, that factor was family income

• The yellow surface area was particularly associated. Those regions support certain sets of cognitive skills. such skills are vocabulary, reading, as well as exert self control, which is important because those skills are the very skills that children living in poverty are most likely to struggle with. A child living in poverty is likely to perform worse on tests of language and impulse control before they even turn 2

• the study;

  • The link between family income and children’s brain structure was strongest at the lowest income levels.

  • relatively small differences in family income were associated with proportionately greater differences in brain structure among the most disadvantaged families

• Ef við hugsum um 2 krakka sem fæðast á sama tíma, það er enginn munur á þeim nema 1 krakki á fátæka fjölskyldu en hinn krakkin ekki. við vitum að þegar báðir krakkarnir byrja í kindergarden þá er krakkin sem býr í fátækt er hann að meðaltali 60% líklegri til að fá lægri cognitive scores. einnig er hann fimm sinnum líklegri til að hætta í High school. út frá því er hann líklegri ekki að fara í háskóla og hann er líka 75% líklegri til að búa í fátækt þegar hann er eldri.

• Hún vil að við aukum vocabulary- ekki bara að tala heldur tala við barnið

• Hún er að gera rannsókn og skoða hvort að gefa fátækum mæðrum auka mánaðalega pening hafi áhrif á þróun heila barns.