Mathematics Anxiety: What Is Known, and What is Still Missing

This ground-breaking collection presents theoretical, educational and psychophysiological perspectives on the widespread phenomenon of mathematics anxiety.

Author: Irene C. Mammarella
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780367190392

About the Author

Irene C. Mammarella is Associate Professor at the University of Padova, Italy. Her research interests include the role of working memory and emotional aspects in specific learning disorders, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. She is the cofounder of a clinical university centre for neurodevelopmental disorders (LabDA srl) and coauthored the book Nonverbal learning disabilities (Guilford Press, 2016).

Sara Caviola is a Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK. She won a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship and spent two years at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge. Her main interests include analyses of cognitive and emotional underpinnings of mathematical cognition, in both children and adult populations.

Ann Dowker is University Research Lecturer at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK. She has edited and coedited several books, and is the author of Individual Differences in Arithmetic: Implications for Psychology, Neuroscience and Education (Psychology Press, 2005; second edition to be published in 2019). She is the lead researcher on the Catch Up Numeracy intervention project.