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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Aug 25.
Published before final editing as: Psychol Aging. 2025 Aug 21:10.1037/pag0000932. doi: 10.1037/pag0000932

Table 4:

Sigma correlations across tasks within and across domains. The correlation coefficient is presented in the bottom triangle and the corresponding 95% credible interval in the top. Processing speed tasks are highlighted in yellow, working memory tasks in orange, episodic memory tasks in green.

Younger Adults
PS-V PS-N PS-F WM-V WM-N WM-F EM-V EM-N EM-F
PS-V 1 0.88:0.96 0.44:0.72 −0.10:0.31 −0.20:0.20 0.06:0.44 −0.25:0.14 −0.07:0.33 −0.42:−0.02
PS-N 0.92* 1 0.28:0.61 −0.12:0.29 −0.19:0.22 0.12:0.49 −0.22:0.18 −0.14:0.26 −0.41:−0.01
PS-F 0.59* 0.46* 1 −0.00:0.41 −0.21:0.21 −0.07:0.33 −0.32:0.08 −0.19:0.22 −0.28:0.14
WM-V 0.11 0.08 0.21 1 −0.18:0.26 −0.01:0.40 0.10:0.49 0.02:0.44 −0.02:0.40
WM-N −0.00 0.01 0.00 0.04 1 −0.06:0.35 −0.30:0.12 −0.24:0.19 −0.10:0.33
WM-F 0.26* 0.32* 0.13 0.20 0.15 1 −0.22:0.19 −0.01:0.39 −0.20:0.22
EM-V −0.06 −0.02 −0.12 0.30* −0.09 −0.02 1 0.08:0.32 0.10:0.49
EM-N 0.13 0.07 0.02 0.24* −0.02 0.19 0.50* 1 0.02:0.42
EM-F −0.23* −0.21* −0.07 0.19 0.11 0.01 0.30* 0.23* 1
Older Adults
PS-V 1 0.39:0.71 0.28:0.63 −0.26:0.18 −0.08:0.34 −0.15:0.27 −0.16:0.27 −0.18:0.24 −0.20:0.23
PS-N 0.56* 1 0.14:0.53 −0.23:0.21 −0.13:0.29 −0.14:0.29 −0.27:0.15 −0.20:0.24 −0.39:0.03
PS-F 0.47* 0.35* 1 −0.22:0.23 −0.34:0.08 −0.19:0.23 −0.34:0.07 −0.20:0.23 −0.30:0.13
WM-V −0.04 −0.01 0.00 1 −0.25:0.20 −0.41:0.03 −0.13:0.30 −0.18:0.27 −0.05:0.38
WM-N 0.14 0.09 −0.14 −0.03 1 −0.19:0.24 −0.19:0.23 0.02:0.43 −0.08:0.34
WM-F 0.06 0.08 0.02 −0.20 0.03 1 −0.16:0.26 −0.22:0.21 −0.12:0.31
EM-V 0.05 −0.07 −0.14 0.09 0.02 0.05 1 0.17:0.55 0.22:0.59
EM-N 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.05 0.23* −0.01 0.37* 1 −0.13:0.30
EM-F 0.01 −0.19 −0.09 0.17 0.13 0.10 0.42* 0.09 1

Note: PS = processing speed, WM = working memory, EM = episodic memory, V = verbal, N = Numerical, F = Figural. An asterisk next to a correlation coefficient denotes statistical “significance” defined as when the 95% credible interval excluded zero.