Challenges in Understanding Numerical Learning: Editorial for Brain Sciences Special Issue "Neurocognitive Signatures of Math (Learning) across the Lifespan and Their Interrelation with Other Aspects of Cognition and Emotion".

10.3390/brainsci12040422 14 Cohen L.D., Korem N., Rubinsten O. Math Anxiety Is Related to Math Difficulties and Composed of Emotion Regulation and Anxiety Predisposition: A Network Analysis Study. Living in our information- and technology-driven society at the beginning of the 21st century requires the ability to understand and handle numbers not only for a successful career but also for coping with everyday life tasks. In recent years, the neurocognitive foundations, predictors, and compensatory (reorganizational) mechanisms of number processing and math learning have gained increasing research interest at both personal and societal levels. Furthermore, math anxiety proved to be a mediating factor between numerosity estimation precision and math abilities. [Extracted from the article]