The social emotional developmental and cognitive neuroscience of socioeconomic gradients: laboratory, population, cross-cultural and community developmental approaches

Kylie Schibli,Amedeo D'Angiulli

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00788

Abstract

The social emotional developmental and cognitive neuroscience of socioeconomic gradients: laboratory, population, cross-cultural and community developmental approaches

Highlights

The study of the socioeconomic neurogradients—i.e., neural differences corresponding to variations in socioeconomic status (SES)—is a neonate area of transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research within neuroscience; this Research Topic portrays the current status in addressing social inequities and life-span brain development
D’Angiulli et al (2012a) examine the emotional/motivational states associated with preadolescent children’s performance on an auditory selective attention task, which is correlated with event-related potentials (ERPs) and electroencephalographic (EEG) techniques to identify brain activity associated with levels of SES
Neuroscientific research has seldom addressed the relations between SES, cultural factors, and immigrant/native background on children’s moral development—the topics investigated by Caravita et al (2012)

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Introduction

The study of the socioeconomic neurogradients—i.e., neural differences corresponding to variations in socioeconomic status (SES)—is a neonate area of transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research within neuroscience; this Research Topic portrays the current status in addressing social inequities and life-span brain development. D’Angiulli et al (2012a) examine the emotional/motivational states associated with preadolescent children’s performance on an auditory selective attention task, which is correlated with event-related potentials (ERPs) and electroencephalographic (EEG) techniques to identify brain activity associated with levels of SES. In a related domain, Gavrilov et al (2012) examine young children’s social development focusing on the role of joint attention.

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