When Math Hurts: Math Anxiety Predicts Pain Network Activation in Anticipation of Doing Math

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Lyons, Ian M ^a,b   Beilock, Sian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICS; PAIN PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE ANXIETY;

EID: 84868286211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048076     Document Type: Article

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