ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Math Anxiety Mediates the Link Between Number Sense and Math Achievements in High Math Anxiety Young Adults.
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- Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
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- The relationship between numerical magnitude processing and math anxiety, and their joint effect on adult math performance, varied by indicators of numerical tasks.Cognitive processing · 2024Article
- Understanding the social-emotional components of our "number sense": insights from a novel non-symbolic numerical comparison task.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Does mathematics anxiety moderate the effect of problem difficulty on cognitive effort?Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2022Article
- Teasing apart the unique contributions of cognitive and affective predictors of math performance.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Article
- Mathematics and Numerosity but Not Visuo-Spatial Working Memory Correlate with Mathematical Anxiety in Adults.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- The Role of Opportunity to Learn on Student Mathematics Anxiety, Problem-Solving Performance, and Mathematics Performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the past few years, many studies have suggested that subjects with high sensory precision in the processing of non-symbolic numerical quantities (approximate number system; ANS) also have higher math abilities. At the same time, there has been interest in another non-cognitive factor affecting mathematical learning: mathematical anxiety (MA). MA is defined as a debilitating emotional reaction to mathematics that interferes with the manipulation of numbers and the solving of mathematical problems. Few studies have been dedicated to uncovering the interplay between ANS and MA and those have provided conflicting evidence. Here we measured ANS precision (numerosity discrimination thresholds) in a cohort of university students with either a high (>75th percentile;
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