The brain's task control networks in youth and relations to academic performance
Jessica Church-Lang PhD
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, February 2nd 2023
2:00 pm ET
Oak Hall 408 (virtual) and livestream
Registration: Oak Hall watch party or livestream
Academic success directly relates to career success and future earnings, while task control, often assessed as executive function, predicts academic success. The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience lab at UT Austin studies how the brain’s putative task control networks relate to academic success and mental health in children and adolescents over time. For this talk, I will first review some of our work on the consistency of control network engagement across different tasks in youth. I will then touch on some studies of individual differences in control-related brain activity among struggling and non-struggling readers, including research with middle school English language learners, conducted through our participation in the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities (TCLD; texasldcenter.org)
For more information, contact: Brain Imaging Research Center at birc@uconn.edu