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T1 Exploratory EEG Analysis of Brain Activity in Children during Addition and Timed Addition Tasks
A1 Marbán, José M.
A1 García-Monge, Alfonso
K1 EEG
K1 Mathematics anxiety
K1 Addition
K1 Brain Frequency bands
K1 Timed task
K1 58 Pedagogía
AB Mathematics learning is affected by both cognitive and affective factors being mathematics anxiety one of the main barriers to both performance and engagement in mathematics. Understanding mathematics anxiety requires understanding its causes and manifestations, and studies that address its psychophysiological dimension, mainly through biometric markers, are of great help in this regard. In this sense, time pressure (endogenous or exogenous) usually interacts with mathematics anxiety being its influence on the performance of arithmetic tasks especially significant. Specifically, this study compares EEG activity between a scenario where 15 schoolchildren (8-9 years old) perform sums and another where they perform similar sums but under time pressure. This comparison was chosen as an initial exploratory comparison being the initial phase of a broader study aimed at developing a neurofeedback tool that, using electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, detects states of mathematics anxiety during the performance of mathematical tasks in naturalistic or semi-naturalistic school contexts. The results exhibit significantly higher activity during timed sums in frontal and parietal areas in the theta frequency bands (3-7Hz, related to workload and working memory) and high beta (20-30Hz, associated with arousal and anxiety). These results represent an initial step towards comprehending the cortical processes involved in mathematical tasks within semi-naturalistic contexts and provides some initial insights for further exploration.
PB University of Helsinki, Finland / LUMA Centre Finland.
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81066
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81066
LA eng
NO 30th International Mathematical Views conference MAVI. September 18 to 20, 2024. University of Education Freiburg.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-ene-2026