Mathematics anxiety affects counting but not subitizing during visual enumeration

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 293-297

  Maloney, Erin A ^a   Risko, Evan F ^b   Ansari, Daniel ^c   Fugelsang, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Math anxiety; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANXIETY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449092793     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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