Krendl Anne C, Richeson Jennifer A, Kelley William M, Heatherton Todd F
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, NH 03755, USA.
Psychol Sci. 2008 Feb;19(2):168-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02063.x.
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).
本研究使用功能磁共振成像来识别与女性在数学任务上表现不佳相关的神经结构。虽然处于对照条件下的女性会激活与数学学习相关的神经网络（即角回、左侧顶叶和前额叶皮质），但那些被提醒有关数学能力的性别刻板印象的女性并未激活这些区域，反而在与社会和情感处理相关的神经区域（腹侧前扣带回皮质）表现出激活增强。
