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

作者：Suarez Pellicioni Macarena; Isabel Nunez Pena Maria; Colome Angels

来源：Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016, 16(1): 3-22.

DOI：10.3758/s13415-015-0370-7

• Math anxiety
• Numerical cognition
• Brain correlates
• fMRI
• ERPs
• Workingmemory
• Inhibitory deficit
• Attentional control deficit
• Numerical magnitude representation

A decade has passed since the last published review of math anxiety, which was carried out by Ashcraft and Ridley (2005). Given the considerable interest aroused by this topic in recent years and the growing number of publications related to it, the present article aims to provide a full and updated review of the field, ranging from the initial studies of the impact of math anxiety on numerical cognition, to the latest research exploring its electrophysiological correlates and brain bases from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Finally, this review describes the factors and mechanisms that have been claimed to play a role in the origins and/or maintenance of math anxiety, and it examines in detail the main explanations proposed to account for the negative effects of math anxiety on performance: competition for working memory resources, a deficit in a low-level numerical representation, and inhibition/attentional control deficit.

• 出版日期2016-2