Abnormal error monitoring in math-anxious individuals: Evidence from error-related brain potentials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Suaŕez Pellicioni, Macarena ^a   Nú̃nez P̃ena, María Isabel ^a   Colomé, Àngels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONITORING; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATING SCALE; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STROOP TEST;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893342688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081143     Document Type: Article

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