Laura E. Engelhardt

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that brain activation during letter perception is influenced in different, important ways by previous handwriting of letters versus previous typing or tracing of those same letters, which demonstrates that handwriting is important for the early recruitment in letter processing of brain regions known to underlie successful reading.

TL;DR: Infants from socioeconomically diverse families were recruited and SES disparities in developmental trajectories of language and memory were present such that, at 21 months of age, children of highly educated parents scored approximately .8 standard deviations higher in bothlanguage and memory than children of less educated parents.

TL;DR: Investigating whether disparities in hippocampal and amygdala volume persist across the life-span found that socioeconomic status (SES), as operationalized by years of educational attainment, moderates the effect of age on hippocampal volume.

TL;DR: General EF may serve as an early life marker of genetic propensity for a range of functions and pathologies later in life, and correlations among the four EF domains are entirely attributable to shared genetic etiology.

TL;DR: It is proposed that character measures popularly used in education may be best conceptualized as indexing facets of personality that are of particular relevance to academic achievement.