Math anxiety: A review of its cognitive consequences, psychophysiological correlates, and brain bases

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-22

  Suárez Pellicioni, Macarena ^a   Núñez Peña, María Isabel ^a   Colomé, Àngels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attentional control deficit; Brain correlates; ERPs; fMRI; Inhibitory deficit; Math anxiety; Numerical cognition; Numerical magnitude representation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 84958766831     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-015-0370-7     Document Type: Review

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