Clinical Science Brown Bag: Socioeconomic status and inhibitory control: Neural and environmental mechanisms

Brief description: Inhibitory control ability in childhood is related to broad life outcomes in adulthood, even above and beyond IQ. On average, children from low-SES backgrounds are known to show lower levels of inhibitory control than their high-SES peers before beginning kindergarten, and this difference persists at least through middle childhood. This brown bag presentation will explore the mechanisms underlying the relationship between SES and inhibitory control; in particular, it will focus on an investigation of the relationships between a behavioral inhibitory control measure, a neural inhibitory control measure, and different SES variables.