In this talk, Professor Thomas discussed recent cognitive neuroscience evidence on how SES influences cognitive and brain development. SES has been identified as a key environmental measure that influences health, cognition, and educational outcomes in child development.
However, it is proxy measure that does not identify the actual causal processes influencing development. Professor Thomas then discussed how recent evidence from behavioural and brain imaging studies may help us isolate the relevant mechanistic pathways and point to interventions to alleviate the effects of deprivation on cognitive development.
DATE 19th October 2016
LOCATION Church House, Westminster
Workshop Mediator: Derek Bell Director of Learnus Professor of Education, College of Teachers
This was the sixth workshop in a series entitled "Understanding Learning - is it all in the brain?"