Studies on childhood poverty and self-regulatory development

RUETTI, E.; HERMIDA M.J.; JAUME, L.; RAMIREZ V.; LIPINA S.J.; PRATS, L.; SMULSKI, M; GIOVANNETTI, F.; SEGRETÍN M.S.; FRACCHIA, C.; NACHON, J.I.; PIETTO LM; LÓPEZ-ROSENFELD, M.; MANCINI, N.

Washington

Encuentro; Global Convergence on the Science of Learning; 2018

National Science Foundation

The Unit of Applied Biology group analyze how childhood poverty is associated with the performance on tasks demanding cognitive control and emotional memory, at the neural, cognitive and behavioral levels, in samples of Argentinean preschool- and school-aged children. The experimental approaches are based on a conceptualization of child development that considers the existence of multiple dynamic systems at different levels of organization and development contexts. Associative analyses include the application of mixed and multivariate models, which simultaneously take into account information from individual children (e.g., cortisol, EEG/ERP, individual trajectories of executive and academic performances, temperament), their families (e.g., maternal mental health, SES, community resources and stressors, family developmental expectations) and their communities (e.g., cultural norms, customs and traditions, threat stereotypes). The same conceptual and analytical approaches are being applied to databases from other projects (e.g., Young Lives).