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Cognitive training can improve brain performance of students in poverty Posted: 10 Dec 2014 05:07 AM PST The cognitive effects of poverty can be mitigated during middle school with a targeted intervention, according to researchers who, for the first time, examined the efficacy of cognitive training in a large and diverse group of 7th and 8th grade public middle school students as compared to typically developing students who received no specific training.