Mathematics anxiety affects counting but not subitizing during visual enumeration |
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| Authors: | Erin A Maloney Evan F Risko Daniel Ansari Jonathan Fugelsang |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy;2. Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova, Italy;3. Department of Life, Health & Environmental Sciences, University of L''Aquila, Italy;4. IRCCS San Camillo Neurorehabilitation Hospital, Venice-Lido, Italy |
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| 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. |
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