Abstract
This study used event-related brain potentials to investigate whether math anxiety is related to abnormal error monitoring processing. To this end, fourteen high math-anxious (HMA) and fourteen low math-anxious (LMA) individuals were presented with a numerical and a classical Stroop task. Groups did not differ in trait anxiety. We found enhanced error-related negativity (ERN) in the HMA group when they committed an error in the numerical Stroop task, but not in the classical Stroop task. Groups did not differ in the correct-related negativity component (CRN), the error positivity component (Pe) or behavioral measures. The amplitude of the ERN was negatively related to participants’ math anxiety scores, showing a more negative amplitude as the score increased. The results were interpreted according to the motivational significance theory of the ERN.
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