Abnormal numerical processing in math-anxious individuals: Evidence from event-related brain potentials, this is the title of the PhD thesis leading to the International PhD Diploma by the University of Barcelona that Macarena Suárez-Pellicioni will be defending next Thursday December 4th, 2014, at 12:00am. The defense will take place at Sala de Graus, Faculty of Psychology, Campus Mundet. Supervisor was by Dr. Maribel Núñez-Peña.
The thesis investigated differences between low mathanxious (LMA) and high math-anxious (HMA) individuals in numeric processing by means of behavioral and event-related potential (ERPs) measures, and it is submitted as a compendium of five papers:
Núñez-Peña, M.I., Suárez-Pellicioni, M., Guilera, G., and Mercadé, C. (2013). A Spanish version of the short Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (sMARS). Learning and Individual Differences, 24, 204-210.
Suárez-Pellicioni, M., Núñez-Peña, M.I., and Colomé, A. (2013). Mathematical Anxiety Effects on Simple Arithmetic Processing Efficiency: An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 94, 517-526.
Suárez-Pellicioni, M., Núñez-Peña, M.I., and Colomé, A. (2013). Reactive recruitment of attentional control in math anxiety: an ERP study of the numeric conflict monitoring and adaptation. PLoS ONE, 9(6): e99579.
Suárez-Pellicioni, M., Núñez-Peña, M.I., and Colomé, A. (2014). Abnormal error monitoring in math-anxious individuals: Evidence from error-related brain potentials. PLoS ONE, 8(11), e81143.
Suárez-Pellicioni, M., Núñez-Peña, M.I., and Colomé, A. Attentional bias in high math-anxious individuals: Evidence from an emotional Stroop task. Motivation and Emotion, submitted.
Congratulations, Macarena!
