María Isabel Núñez‐Peña

Math anxiety and attentional control: the role of focusing and shifting attention in math performance

María Isabel Núñez‐Peña

Math anxiety is an emotional reaction that leads highly math-anxious (HMA) individuals to perform worse in math tasks than their low math-anxious (LMA) peers. The aim of the present study was to examine whether HMA individuals may have poor general attentional control, …

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Response inhibition deficits in math‐anxious individuals

María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Carlos Campos‐Rodríguez

We examined whether math anxiety is related to a response inhibition deficit and, if so, whether it is a domain-specific inhibition deficit in numerical tasks or a general inhibition deficit. Behavioral performance and electroencephalogram activity were recorded while 28 highly math-anxious (HMA) …

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María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Carlos Campos‐Rodríguez

Mathematics self-concept and response pattern in higher education examinations: differences between genders

María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Marta Ramon-Casas, Toni Cunillera, Carlos Campos‐Rodríguez

The study examined how mathematics self-concept, mathematics anxiety and endorsement of mathematics gender stereotypes may impact female students’ response pattern in multiple-choice examinations in courses with mathematical content. Questionnaires measuring these three variables were completed by 435 undergraduates (327 enrolled in a …

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Sudden transition to online learning: Exploring the relationships among measures of student experience

Roser Bono, María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Carlos Campos‐Rodríguez, Belén González‐Gómez et autres

Online learning anxiety might be related to how university students perceived their learning and performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in course modules with mathematical content, math anxiety may also have come into play. The aim of this study was to examine …

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Response monitoring in math-anxious individuals in an arithmetic task

María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Carlos Campos‐Rodríguez

We examine whether math anxiety is related to altered response monitoring in an arithmetic task. Response-locked event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were evaluated in 23 highly (HMA) and 23 low math-anxious (LMA) individuals while they performed an arithmetic verification task. We focused on …

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Math anxiety and attention: Biased orienting to math symbols or less efficient attentional control?

Belén González‐Gómez, Àngels Colomé, María Isabel Núñez‐Peña

Abstract Previous research about the existence of an attentional bias for math in highly math-anxious (HMA) individuals shows inconsistent results, and methodologies used so far cannot distinguish the various components of attentional bias. Here we adapted Grafton and MacLeod (2014)’s methodology to …

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Math anxiety and the shifting function: An event‐related potential study of arithmetic task switching

Belén González‐Gómez, María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Àngels Colomé

Why is math anxiety usually related to less efficient math processing? According to attentional control theory, anxiety leads to reduced attentional control, which often entails a greater investment of resources (e.g., more time or effort) to carry out a cognitive task. The …

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Belén González‐Gómez, María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Àngels Colomé

Development and Validation of the Brief Math Anxiety Scale (BMAS) in University Students

María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Georgina Guilera

BACKGROUND: This study developed the Brief Math Anxiety Scale (BMAS), a brief version of the Shortened Math Anxiety Rating Scale (sMARS), maintaining its original three-factor structure, by applying item response theory. METHOD: The sMARS was administered to 1,349 undergraduates, along with other …

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Proactive control of attention in math-anxious individuals

Àngels Colomé, María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Belén González‐Gómez

Attentional control deficit has been proposed as one of the reasons for lower arithmetical performance in people with high math anxiety (HMA). Previous research trying to discern whether this deficit concerned proactive or reactive use of attentional control has been criticised because …

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Using error analysis sheets to improve learning in higher education

María Isabel Núñez‐Peña, Roser Bono

We developed and evaluated the effectiveness of a new teaching strategy aimed at improving students' learning in a Research Design degree module with high mathematical content. The strategy involves presenting students with case studies based on published research and a set of …

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