Socioeconomic disparities affect prefrontal function in children

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1106-1115

  Kishiyama, Mark M ^a   Thomas Boyce, W ^b   Jimenez, Amy M ^c   Perry, Lee M ^d   Knight, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 66049120993     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21101     Document Type: Article

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