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What pupil size can and cannot tell about math anxiety
Math Anxiety (MA) consists of excessive fear and worry about math-related situations. It represents a major barrier to numerical competence and the pursuit of STEM careers. Yet, we currently do not dispose of many tools that can capture its multifaceted nature, e.
Elvio Blini
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Giovanni Anobile
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Roberto Arrighi
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Effects of attentional shifts along the vertical axis on number processing: An eye-tracking study with optokinetic stimulation
Previous studies suggest that associations between numbers and space are mediated by shifts of visuospatial attention along the horizontal axis. In this study, we investigated the effect of vertical shifts of overt attention, induced by optokinetic stimulation (OKS) and monitored through eye-tracking, in two tasks requiring explicit (number comparison) or implicit (parity judgment) processing of number magnitude.
Arianna Felisatti
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Mariagrazia Ranzini
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Elvio Blini
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Matteo Lisi
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Marco Zorzi
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Spatial grounding of symbolic arithmetic: an investigation with optokinetic stimulation
Growing evidence suggests that mental calculation might involve movements of attention along a spatial representation of numerical magnitude. Addition and subtraction on nonsymbolic numbers (numerosities) seem to induce a “momentum” effect, and have been linked to distinct patterns of neural activity in cortical regions subserving attention and eye movements.
Elvio Blini
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Marco Pitteri
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Marco Zorzi
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Larger, smaller, odd or even? Task-specific effects of optokinetic stimulation on the mental number space
Previous studies have shown that number processing can induce spatial biases in perception and action and can trigger the orienting of visuospatial attention. Few studies, however, have investigated how spatial processing and visuospatial attention influences number processing.
Mariagrazia Ranzini
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Matteo Lisi
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Elvio Blini
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Marco Pitteri
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Barbara Treccani
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Konstantinos Priftis
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Marco Zorzi
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