Editing Cognitive load (section)

===Poverty===
As of 2013 it has been theorized that an impoverished environment can contribute to cognitive load.<ref name="Mani et al. 2013">{{cite journal |last1=Mani |first1=A. |last2=Mullainathan |first2=S. |last3=Shafir |first3=E. |last4=Zhao |first4=J. |s2cid=1684186 |title=Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function |journal=Science |date=29 August 2013 |volume=341 |issue=6149 |pages=976–980 |doi=10.1126/science.1238041 |pmid=23990553 |bibcode=2013Sci...341..976M |citeseerx=10.1.1.398.6303 }}</ref> Regardless of the task at hand, or the processes used in solving the task, people who experience poverty also experience higher cognitive load. A number of factors contribute to the cognitive load in people with lower [[socioeconomic status]] that are not present in middle and upper-class people.<ref name="Hackman and Farah">{{cite journal |last1=Hackman |first1=Daniel A. |last2=Farah |first2=Martha J. |title=Socioeconomic status and the developing brain |journal=Trends in Cognitive Sciences |date=February 2009 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=65–73 |doi=10.1016/j.tics.2008.11.003 |pmid=19135405 |pmc=3575682 }}</ref>