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Adversity early in life tends to affect a child's executive function skills -- their ability to focus, for example, or organize tasks. Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain chemistry, muting the effects of stress hormones.

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Many brain studies show that bilingual adults have more activity in areas associated with executive function, a set of mental abilities that includes problem-solving, shifting attention and other desirable cognitive traits. Now new findings reveal that this bilingualism-related difference in brain activity is evident as early as 11 months of age...

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Another good reason why children should do Edublox Online Tutor: a new study shows a strong link between executive functions, such as working memory and achievement in sport. Working memory refers to the ability to temporarily hold several facts or thoughts in memory while solving a problem or performing a task.

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