Table 1.

Results of the Spearman rank correlations comparing the individual’s test performances in the 1st phase of reversal learning (1st RL), the 2nd phase of reversal learning (2nd RL) and negative patterning (NP)

Experiment	Correlation	Rho	P value
1	1st RL–2nd RL	0.53	**
1	1st RL–NP	0.42	*
1	2nd RL–NP	0.25	ns
2	1st RL–2nd RL	0.60	***
2	1st RL–NP	0.46	*
2	2nd RL–NP	0.19	ns
3	1st RL–2nd RL	–	–
3	1st RL–NP	0.18	*
3	2nd RL–NP	0.18	ns
4	1st RL–2nd RL	–	–
4	1st RL–NP	0.33	**
4	2nd RL–NP	0.15	ns

ns not significant

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001