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Abnormal Error Monitoring in Math-Anxious Individuals: Evidence from Error-Related Brain Potentials

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  • Macarena Suárez-Pellicioni
  • María Isabel Núñez-Peña
  • Àngels Colomé

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This study used event-related brain potentials to investigate whether math anxiety is related to abnormal error monitoring processing. Seventeen high math-anxious (HMA) and seventeen low math-anxious (LMA) individuals were presented with a numerical and a classical Stroop task. Groups did not differ in terms of trait or state anxiety. We found enhanced error-related negativity (ERN) in the HMA group when subjects committed an error on the numerical Stroop task, but not on the classical Stroop task. Groups did not differ in terms of the correct-related negativity component (CRN), the error positivity component (Pe), classical behavioral measures or post-error measures. The amplitude of the ERN was negatively related to participants’ math anxiety scores, showing a more negative amplitude as the score increased. Moreover, using standardized low resolution electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) we found greater activation of the insula in errors on a numerical task as compared to errors in a non-numerical task only for the HMA group. The results were interpreted according to the motivational significance theory of the ERN.

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  • Macarena Suárez-Pellicioni & María Isabel Núñez-Peña & Àngels Colomé, 2013. "Abnormal Error Monitoring in Math-Anxious Individuals: Evidence from Error-Related Brain Potentials," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(11), pages 1-1, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0081143
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081143
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