Cognitive adaptations to stressful environments when childhood adversity enhances adult executive function. [article].

Can growing up in a stressful childhood environment enhance certain cognitive functions? Drawing participants from higher-income and lower-income backgrounds, we tested how adults who grew up in harsh or unpredictable environments fared on 2 types of executive function tasks: inhibition and shifting...

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Other Authors: Mittal, Chiraag, Griskevicius, Vladas, Simpson, Jeffry A., Sung, Sooyeon, Young, Ethan S.
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