He gives up on his Jules Verne novels, his diary and his arithmetic problems — and in so doing also gives up on his mother's ethic of self-discipline, even in the face of a crisis.
In this system, the participants' performance both for the main task (simulated by simple arithmetic problems) and for the secondary task (a simulation of a production process) can be measured in a more fine-grained manner than has been the case for existing research in this field.
An individual might, for example, prefer visualization for solving arithmetic problems and verbalization for memorizing a poem.
These parametric regressors absorb the systematic variation inherent in different dimensions of complex stimuli such as words, sentences or arithmetic problems, and allow for separating it from genuine measurement error.
We use this novel arithmetic-affective priming task to study math anxiety, focusing on how the presentation of mathematical word-primes such as "multiplication" or "quantity" influences the ability to solve simple arithmetic problems, and how these math words compare in their effects to negative, positive, or neutral words.
We found this effect for each of the arithmetic procedures (multiplication, addition, subtraction and division), thereby uncovering a direct link between emotion and simple arithmetic problem solving, and more specifically, between negative emotions and deficits in simple arithmetic problem solving in cases of DD.
Functional neuroimaging studies have revealed that parietal brain circuits subserve arithmetic problem solving and that their recruitment dynamically changes as a function of training and development.
The results from logistic regressions pointed out that mental imagery skills and arithmetic problem solving ability had the highest discriminatory power in distinguishing between the two groups.
However, in the current work, the affective value of the target (a simple arithmetic problem) was initially unknown and actually was studied.
