Children of higher and lower maternal education did not differ on on-task comprehension of attended stories during the ERP task¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? There were no significant differences between the higher and lower maternal education groups in the number of comprehension questions correctly answered about the attended stories. → Stevens Courtney 2009

Evidence¶

Stevens Courtney 2009¶

Stevens Courtney, Lauinger Brittni, Neville Helen. (2009). Differences in the neural mechanisms of selective attention in children from different socioeconomic backgrounds: An event-related brain potential study. Developmental Science, 12(4), 634-646. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00807.x

q3 · i? · associational · r1

Secondary behavioral measure in the 32-child ERP study: comprehension questions posed after each attended story. All children answered at least half correctly; group means were 10.1 vs 10.2, "t (30) = −.17, P = .87". No equivalence test was reported.

"There were no significant differences between the higher and lower maternal education groups in the number of comprehension questions correctly answered about the attended stories, t (30) = −.17, P = .87, higher maternal education M = 10.1, SD = 1.1, lower maternal education M = 10.2, SD = 0.9"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Oral Language — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Children of higher maternal education showed a significantly larger attention effect on neural responses (mean attended–unattended difference 1.7 vs. 0.6 μV) — related
• The effect of selective auditory attention on early neural processing differs between children of higher and lower maternal education (significant group × attention interaction within 100–200 msec) — related
• The group difference in neural attentional modulation is tied to reduced distractor suppression in the unattended channel, not to differences in response to attended stimuli — related
• The maternal-education group difference in neural attentional modulation persists after controlling for receptive language scores — related
• ERPs reveal SES disparities in children's auditory attention filtering even when behavioral task performance shows no significant SES difference — a broader claim this one bears on
• Younger children (3–5-year-olds) answered story comprehension questions less accurately than all older age groups — related