Mathematics anxiety in children with developmental dyscalculia.

摘要: Math anxiety, defined as a negative affective response to mathematics, is known have deleterious effects on math performance in the general population. However, assumption that anxiety directly related performance, has not yet been validated. Thus, our primary objective was investigate of numerical processing children with specific deficits acquisition skills (Developmental Dyscalculia; DD) by using novel priming task an indirect measure. Participants (12 DD and 11 typically-developing peers) completed which arithmetic equation preceded one four types words (positive, neutral, or mathematics). Children were required indicate whether (simple facts based addition, subtraction, multiplication division) true false. Typically, people respond target stimuli more quickly after presentation affectively-related prime than unrelated affectively. responded faster targets both primes math-related primes. A reversed pattern present control group. These results reveal direct link between emotions, low achievement math. It also suggested arithmetic-affective might be used measure anxiety.