ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2017
Development of selective attention in preschool-age children from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds.
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- Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Children's Cognition-Differences in Degree or Kind?Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Pooled it
- EEG signatures of cognitive and social development of preschool children-a systematic review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Scalp Event-Related Potentials: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
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- Attentional control as a double-edged sword: Distractor processing and its potential benefits in individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Unlocking math potential in students from lower SES backgrounds - using instructional scaffolds to improve performance.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Cognitive Electrophysiology in Socioeconomic Context in Adulthood.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Personality Traits and Family SES Moderate the Relationship between Media Multitasking and Reasoning Performance.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Article
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- How bilingualism modulates selective attention in children.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Developmental Chronnecto-Genomics (Dev-CoG) study: A multimodal study on the developing brain.NeuroImage · 2021Article
- Selective Auditory Attention Associated With Language Skills but Not With Executive Functions in Swedish Preschoolers.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Socioeconomic status and neural processing of a go/no-go task in preschoolers: An assessment of the P3b.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
- Neuroplasticity of selective attention: Research foundations and preliminary evidence for a gene by intervention interaction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
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- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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Abstract
Although differences in selective attention skills have been identified in children from lower compared to higher socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, little is known about these differences in early childhood, a time of rapid attention development. The current study evaluated the development of neural systems for selective attention in children from lower SES backgrounds. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were acquired from 33 children from lower SES and 14 children from higher SES backgrounds during a dichotic listening task. The lower SES group was followed longitudinally for one year. At age four, the higher SES group exhibited a significant attention effect (larger ERP response to attended compared to unattended condition), an effect not observed in the lower SES group. At age five, the lower SES group exhibited a significant attention effect comparable in overall magnitude to that observed in the 4-year-old higher SES group, but with poorer distractor suppression (larger response to the unattended condition). Together, these findings suggest both a maturational delay and divergent developmental pattern in neural mechanisms for selective attention in young children from lower compared to higher SES backgrounds. Furthermore, these findings highlight the importance of studying neurodevelopment within narrow age ranges and in children from diverse backgrounds.
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