来自低社会经济地位(SES)家庭的儿童平均表现出比高级同龄人更低的学术成就。我们调查了一个新的假设,即早期发展的感觉网工作的差异 - 尤其是腹侧视觉流(VVS),涉及处理视觉刺激 - 导致执行功能中与SES相关的差异(EF)和学术成果。我们使用fMRI研究了在两个注意力的任务中,涉及注意视觉信息的两个注意力任务中,儿童(6 - 8年,n = 62)的神经功能的相关差异:引起注意力和记忆引导引起的注意。在这两个任务期间的VV募集均与EF和学术成就有关,并且在提示注意力期间与SES相关的VVS激活差异略有解释,这是认知刺激的差异。vvs激活在提示注意力介导的学术成就中介导的与SES相关的差异。最后,任务和学术成就过程中VVS激活之间的联系是由EF的差异介导的。We extend previous work by highlighting that: (i) early-developing visual processing regions play a role in supporting complex attentional processes, (ii) childhood SES is associated with VVS function, which is explained in part by SES-related differ ences in cognitive stimulation and (iii) provide preliminary evidence that individual differences in VVS function may play a role in the emergence of the income-achievement gap.