Mathematics Anxiety Affects Counting but Not Subitizing during Visual Enumeration

Autor/inn/en	Maloney, Erin A.; Risko, Evan F.; Ansari, Daniel; Fugelsang, Jonathan
Titel	Mathematics Anxiety Affects Counting but Not Subitizing during Visual Enumeration
Quelle	In: Cognition, 114 (2010) 2, S.293-297 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.013
Schlagwörter	Short Term Memory; Mathematics Anxiety; Measures (Individuals); Mathematics Tests; Task Analysis; Cognitive Processes; Visual Stimuli; Numeracy; Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Messdaten; Aufgabenanalyse; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Rechenkompetenz; Vorhersage
Abstract	Individuals with mathematics anxiety have been found to differ from their non-anxious peers on measures of higher-level mathematical processes, but not simple arithmetic. The current paper examines differences between mathematics anxious and non-mathematics anxious individuals in more basic numerical processing using a visual enumeration task. This task allows for the assessment of two systems of basic number processing: subitizing and counting. Mathematics anxious individuals, relative to non-mathematics anxious individuals, showed a deficit in the counting but not in the subitizing range. Furthermore, working memory was found to mediate this group difference. These findings demonstrate that the problems associated with mathematics anxiety exist at a level more basic than would be predicted from the extant literature. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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