# How does income affect childhood brain development?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Salon: Education Everywhere
- Speaker: Kimberly Noble
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Economics, Psychology and the brain, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberly_noble_how_does_income_affect_childhood_brain_development)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Neuroscientist and pediatrician Kimberly Noble is leading the Baby's First Years study: the first-ever randomized study of how family income changes children's cognitive, emotional and brain development. She and a team of economists and policy experts are working together to find out: Can we help kids in poverty simply by giving families more money? "The brain is not destiny," Noble says. "And if a child's brain can be changed, then anything is possible."

## Lectures

1. [How does income affect childhood brain development?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kimberly_noble_how_does_income_affect_childhood_brain_development/6c2425a4dfcf), 12 min (TED's player)