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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Nov 2.
Published in final edited form as: Front Cognit. 2023 Jun 22;2:1207428. doi: 10.3389/fcogn.2023.1207428

TABLE 1.

Descriptive statistics of A-span and A-span percent change for each age group.

Children Young
adults
Older
adults
A-span Mean 29.61 sec 76.24 sec 67.01 sec
Median 27.37 sec 72.17 sec 59.31 sec
Stdev 13.86 sec 30.55 sec 28.28 sec
Range 8.88–77.92 sec 27.12–189.74 sec 25.95–186.98 sec
A-span % change Mean −12.55% 20.02% 4.88%
Median −27.41% −2.54% −8.40%
Stdev 46.73% 78.09% 61.62%
Range −68.45–160.25% −76.21–346.08% −67.20–299.38%
p-value 0.003** 0.328 0.606

The row indicating “p value” reflects results from the Wilcoxon signed rank tests assessing if A-span percent change significantly differed from 0. **p < 0.01.