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ArticleScientific reports2022

Parental education is associated with differential engagement of neural pathways during inhibitory control.

Christopher N Cascio, Nina Lauharatanahirun, Gwendolyn M Lawson, Martha J Farah, Emily B Falk

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher N CascioSchool of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5115 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., Madison, WI, 53706, USA. chris.n.cascio@wisc.edu.
Nina LauharatanahirunBiobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, 531 Chemical & Biomedical Engineering building, University Park, PA, 16803, USA.
Gwendolyn M LawsonChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Martha J FarahDepartment of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3710 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Emily B FalkAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. falk@asc.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · USChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia · USPennsylvania State University · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Can neuroscience dramatically improve our ability to design health communicationsDP2DA035156 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI FALK, EMILY · 2012 to 2012
$2.3M
National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award 1DP2DA03515601NICHD NIH HHS HHSN275201000007CNIDA NIH HHS DP2 DA035156
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Response inhibition and socioeconomic status (SES) are critical predictors of many important outcomes, including educational attainment and health. The current study extends our understanding of SES and cognition by examining brain activity associated with response inhibition, during the key developmental period of adolescence. Adolescent males (N = 81), aged 16-17, completed a response inhibition task while undergoing fMRI brain imaging and reported on their parents' education, one component of socioeconomic status. A region of interest analysis showed that parental education was associated with brain activation differences in the classic response inhibition network (right inferior frontal gyrus + subthalamic nucleus + globus pallidus) despite the absence of consistent parental education-performance effects. Further, although activity in our main regions of interest was not associated with performance differences, several regions that were associated with better inhibitory performance (ventromedial prefrontal cortex, middle frontal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, amygdala/hippocampus) also differed in their levels of activation according to parental education. Taken together, these results suggest that individuals from households with higher versus lower parental education engage key brain regions involved in response inhibition to differing degrees, though these differences may not translate into performance differences.

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Adolescent BehaviorAdolescent DevelopmentBrain WavesEducational StatusInhibition, PsychologicalSocial ClassAdolescentAge FactorsBrainBrain MappingFathersFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMothers

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PMID34997113
PMCPMC8741989
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