Table 5.

Correlations between the SA task and WM task for the children with 22q11DS and the TD children

			WM forward				WM backward
		n	r	p	95% CI	n	r	p	95% CI
SA hits	22q11DS	36	0.29	0.082	− 0.04–0.57	36	0.17	0.32	− 0.17–0.47
	TD	78	0.59	< 0.001	0.36–0.68	77	0.47	< 0.001	0.27–0.63
SA errors	22q11DS	36	− 0.50	0.002	− 0.71 to − 0.21	36	0.11	0.53	− 0.23–0.42
	TD	78	− 0.04	0.71	− 0.26–0.18	77	− 0.23	0.042*	− 0.44 to − 0.00
SA repetitions	22q11DS	36	− 0.08	0.63	− 0.40–0.25	36	0.18	0.29	− 0.48–0.16
	TD	78	0.07	0.51	− 0.15–0.29	77	0.05	0.68	− 0.27–0.18

Significant correlations are in bold

Abbreviations: 22q11DS 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, CI confidence interval, SA selective attention, SD standard deviation, TD typically developing, WM working memory

^*Spearman’s rho, as these non-parametric outcomes differed from the Pearson correlation (r(77) =  − 0.22, p = 0.056)