Impact of family income on children’s learning shaped by hippocampus. – Brinkwire

A new study by a team of researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T) has identified the region of the brain’s hippocampus that links low income with decreased memory and language ability in children.
Previous research has shown that children from lower income families on average score lower in memory and language abilities than their higher income peers.
It is also known that a brain region that supports these abilitiescalled the hippocampusis sensitive to the chronic stress that can b…

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