Brain Trust

作者:Noble, Kimberly G.*
来源:Scientific American, 2017, 316(3): 44-49.
DOI:10.1038/scientificamerican0317-44

摘要

GROWING UP POOR DOES MORE THAN DEPRIVE A BILLION children and adolescents worldwide of basic material necessities. Poverty places the young child's brain at much greater risk of not going through the paces of normal development to eventually become the three-pound wonder able to perform intellectual feats, whether composing symphonies or solving differential equations.