Journal article
Neurocognitive basis of deductive reasoning in children varies with parental education
Human brain mapping, Vol.42(11), pp.3396-3410
08/01/2021
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25441
PMCID: PMC8249891
PMID: 33978281
Abstract
The neurocognitive basis of elementary academic skills varies with parental socioeconomic status (SES). Little is known, however, about SES-related differences underlying higher-order cognitive skills that are critical for school success, such as reasoning. Here we used fMRI to examine how the neurocognitive basis of deductive reasoning varies as a function of parental education in school-aged children. Higher parental education was associated with greater reliance on the left inferior frontal gyrus when solving set-inclusion problems, consistent with other work suggesting that these problems might more heavily rely on verbal systems in the brain. In addition, children who are at the lower end of the parental education continuum, but have higher nonverbal skills relied on right parietal areas to a greater degree than their peers for solving set-inclusion problems. Finally, lower parental education children with higher verbal or nonverbal skill engaged dorsolateral prefrontal regions to a greater degree for set-inclusion and linear-order relations than their peers. These findings suggest that children with lower parental education rely on spatial and cognitive control mechanisms to achieve parity with their peers with parents who have more education. Better understanding variability in the neurocognitive networks that children recruit as a function of their parental factors might benefit future individualized interventions that best match children's characteristics.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neurocognitive basis of deductive reasoning in children varies with parental education
- Creators
- Ö. Ece Demir‐Lira - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of Iowa Iowa City Iowa USA, DeLTA Center University of Iowa Iowa City Iowa USA, Iowa Neuroscience Institute University of Iowa Iowa City Iowa USAJérôme Prado - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL) Experiential Neuroscience and Mental Training Team, INSERM U1028 ‐ CNRS UMR5292, University of Lyon Lyon FranceJames R Booth - Department of Psychology and Human Development Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Human brain mapping, Vol.42(11), pp.3396-3410
- DOI
- 10.1002/hbm.25441
- PMID
- 33978281
- PMCID
- PMC8249891
- NLM abbreviation
- Hum Brain Mapp
- ISSN
- 1065-9471
- eISSN
- 1097-0193
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000071, name: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, award: HD059177
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984077786702771
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