Poverty has been linked with changes in child brain development, and a scheme to give $333 a month to low-income families improved brain activity in a child’s first year
The researchers found that, on average, children from families that received $333 a month had more brain activity in higher frequencies than those in the $20 group. “We know in childhood that more of that fast brain activity tends to predict skills that are important for thinking and learning down the road,” says Noble. “We also know that kids growing up in poverty often show less of that high-frequency brain activity.
“We’re showing for the first time that poverty reduction has a causal impact on brain activity,” she says. She speculates that $333 a month changed the home environments of those babies, though the researchers haven’t yet determined what exactly these changes were, and therefore how they affected brain activity. Lower incomes have been linked with“The fact that we did see effects after just one year really speaks to the remarkable plasticity of the developing brain and its sensitivity to economic resources,” she says.at the University of Birmingham in the UK.
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