Associations between neighborhood socioeconomic status, parental education, and executive system activation in youth.

ABSTRACT: Socioeconomic status (SES) can impact cognitive performance, including working memory (WM). As executive systems that support WM undergo functional neurodevelopment during adolescence, environmental stressors at both individual and community levels may influence cognitive outcomes. Here, we sought to examine how SES at the neighborhood and family level impacts task-related activation of the executive system during adolescence and determine whether this effect mediates the relationship between SES and WM performance. To address these questions, we studied 1,150 youths (age 8-23) that completed a fractal n-back WM task during functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3T as part of the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort. We found that both higher neighborhood SES and parental education wer

SUBMITTER: Murtha K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9930626 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature