Fig. 6: Force Concept Inventory (FCI) and physics knowledge (PK) tasks.

Example items of the in-scanner physics tasks, including the three phases of the FCI task A Phase I: Scenario, B Phase II: Question, C Phase III: Answer, and D the PK task. Reprinted from Smith et al.105, Task-based attentional and default mode connectivity associated with science and math anxiety profiles among university physics students, Pages 100204, Copyright (2023), with permission from Elsevier.