Publications

Publications

Pizzie, R. G., Kim, C. E.-Y., Sortino, R. M., & Inghram, R. (under review, 2025). Assessing Academic Anxiety in d/Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing Individuals. Preprint available: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/b6gp7_v1

Pizzie, R. G., Sortino, R. M., Kim, C. E.-Y., & Inghram, R. (2025). Math anxiety and science anxiety are associated with spatial cognition and STEM interest in deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people. Npj Science of Learning, 10(1), 45. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00336-z

Kim, C., Aichler, L., Bridgett, T., Nicolarakis, O., Lacy, S. H., Sortino, R., Kushalnagar, P., & Pizzie, R.G. (2025). Language anxiety: understanding past research and new directions with d/Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing communities. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1558714. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1558714. 

Sortino, R., Kim, C., Spelman, C., White, B., Pizzie, R.G., (2025) Understanding Math Anxiety (Research Brief No. 13). Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) Research Center, https://vl2.gallaudet.edu/research-briefs https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/97DKF

Fioriti, C. M.*, Pizzie, R. G.*, Evans, T. M., Green, A. E., & Lyons, I. M. (2025). Math anxiety and arithmetic learning: Evidence for impaired procedural learning and enhanced retrieval learning. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 10.1037/xlm0001453. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001453 Supplementary material available: https://osf.io/zc9nf/

Pizzie, R. G., & Kraemer, D. J. M. (2023). Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance. Npj Science of Learning, 8(1), 44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00188-5. 

Pizzie, R.G., Kraemer, D.J.M. Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance. npj Sci. Learn. 8, 44 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00188-5

Pizzie, R. G., & Kraemer, D. J. M. (2021). The association between emotion regulation, physiological arousal, and performance in math anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology: Emotion Science, 12, 639448, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.639448

Burr, D. A., Pizzie, R. G. , & Kraemer, D. J. M. (2021). Do you know how you regulate your emotions? Comparing self-report versus multivariate psychophysiological measures of emotion regulation. PLOS ONE, 16(3): e0247246. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247246

Pizzie, R. G., McDermott, C. L., Salem, T. G., & Kraemer, D. J. M. (2020). Neural Evidence for Cognitive Reappraisal as a Strategy to Alleviate the Effects of Math Anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(12), 1271–1287. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa161

Pizzie, R. G., Raman, N. & Kraemer, D. J. M. (2020) Math anxiety and executive function: Neural influences of task switching on arithmetic processing. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 20, 309–325, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00770-z

Alfred, K. L., Hayes, J. C., Pizzie, R. G., Cetron, J. S., & Kraemer, D. J. M. (2020). Individual differences in encoded neural representations within cortical speech production network. Brain Research, 1726, 146483. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146483 

Hayes, J. C., Alfred, K. L., Pizzie, R. G., Harris, D. S., & Kraemer, D. J. M. (2020) Individual differences in white and grey matter structure associated with verbal habits of thought. Brain Research, 1742, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2020.146890

Pizzie, R. G., & Kraemer, D.J.M. (2019) The Academic Anxiety Inventory: Evidence of dissociable patterns of anxiety related to math and other sources of academic stress. Frontiers in Psychology: Educational Psychology, 9, 2684. Available online: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02684

Pizzie, R. G., & Kraemer, D.J.M. (2017) Avoiding math on a rapid timescale: Emotional responsivity and anxious attention in math anxiety. Brain and Cognition, 118, 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.08.004

*Pizzie, R. G., *Hindman, H., Roe, C. M., Head, D., Grant, E., Morris, J. C., & Hassenstab, J. J. (2013). Physical Activity and Cognitive Trajectories in Cognitively Normal Adults. Alzheimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders. DOI: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e31829628d4. Available online: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3778080/pdf/nihms-478716.pdf

*These authors contributed equally to this work.

In Preparation (manuscripts/preregistrations available upon request)

Pizzie, R. G., McKay, C., Chang, L., Kraemer, D. J. M., Beilock, S., Ansari, D., & Lyons, I. M. (in prep) Math anxiety and brain structure. Preregistration available online: https://osf.io/cbt7q

Presentations

Pizzie, R.G.*, (May 2025) Math Anxiety in d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals. [Virtual Invited Presentation] University of Derby School Psychology Seminar Series—Mathematics Anxiety Research Group, May 28th, 2025, University of Derby, Derby, UK.

Pizzie, R.G.*, (May 2025) Math Anxiety in d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals. [Virtual Invited Presentation] Dartmouth Cognitive Science Program Weekly Speaker Series—Major Seminar in Cognitive Science, May 23rd, 2025, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA.

Pizzie, R.G.*, (May 2025) “Math Anxiety in d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals” [Virtual Invited Presentation] STAR Lab meeting with PI Dr. David Uttal, May 9th, 2025, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA.

Pizzie, R.G.*, (April 2025) “Math Anxiety in d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals” [Guest Lecture] LIN 595: All in the Numbers, April 16th, 2025, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA.

Sortino, R.*, Kim, C., Guettler, T., McClyman, K., White, B., Lualdi, C., Wooten, A., Quandt. L, Pizzie, R.G. (accepted, July 2025). Investigating Learning in Signing Students who are Anxious about STEM. [Symposium presentation]. 2025 International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, Rome, Italy.

Pizzie, R.G., Sortino, R., Kim, C., Inghram, R., Diaz, I. (June 2024) Examining the interplay between anxiety, spatial cognition, and experience with a spatial language in STEM outcomes. [Symposium Presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Meeting, June 26-28, 2024 Washington DC, USA. 

Pizzie, R.G., Kraemer, D. J. M. (April 2024) “Exploring Interventions for Math Anxiety in High School Math Classrooms” in Symposium: “Understanding How Math Anxiety Develops, Operates, and Is Better Treated Using Multi-Method Approaches.” [Symposium Presentation] American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 11-14, 2024, Philadelphia, PA

Sortino, R.*, Kim, C., Guettler, T., McClyman, K., White, B., Lualdi, C., Wooten, A., Quandt. L, Pizzie, R.G. (March 2024). Preliminary Investigation on the Effectiveness of Technical ASL for Teaching STEM Content. [Symposium Presentation]. Global STEM Sign Language Summit, March 2-4, 2024, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA.

Pizzie, R.G., (November 2022) “Math Anxiety: Exploring the influence of negative emotion on math performance.” [Invited Presentation] University of Maryland Developmental Science Colloquium, November 9, 2022, College Park, Maryland. 

Pizzie, R.G., (October 2020) “Emotional influences on academic experiences: Exploring math anxiety in the lab and the classroom.” [Virtual Invited Presentation] Colorado College NeuroClub Invited Speaker, October 29, 2020, Colorado Springs, CO. 

*Presenting Author