Researchers found that, among pairs of people who had very different socioeconomic backgrounds – calculated according to education level and family income – there was a higher level of activity in an area of the frontal lobe called the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The area is associated with speech production and rule-based language as well as cognitive and attentional control.
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