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Dartmouth College researchers found that kids in rural poverty score significantly lower on visual, but higher on verbal of working memory tests than their urban counterparts.
The Dartmouth research results can be viewed online in the Journal of Cognition and Development. It will be included in the journal's next print edition.
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Federal Programs Related to - Behavioral Science Programs
Programs that focus on the social sciences, psychology, and biomedical sciences to study complex problems of human individual and social growth and behavior.
Federal Programs Related to - Poverty Studies
Programs that conduct research in the area of social science that involves the systematic study of the origins, causes, demographics and costs of poverty and the efficacy of proposed or implemented poverty alleviation measures.