This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify the neural structures associated with women's underperformance on math tasks. Although women in a control condition recruited neural networks that are associated with mathematical learning (i.e., angular gyrus, left parietal and prefrontal cortex), women who were reminded of gender stereotypes about math ability did not recruit these regions, and instead revealed heightened activation in a neural region associated with social and emotional processing (ventral anterior cingulate cortex).
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Krendl, A. C., Richeson, J. A., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2008). The Negative Consequences of Threat. Psychological Science, 19(2), 168–175. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02063.x
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