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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Jul 24.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2006 Mar 31;44(11):2037–2078. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.02.006

Table 2.

Table of means for each of the task conditions by age of the participants

Age in years
Task condition 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 26 Average Tukey results
Accuracy (percentage of correct responses)
Pictures 91.67 87.59 93.92 88.07 85.26 88.03 86.14 91.45 91.08 92.25 100.00 98.23 A
Arrows 83.36 79.11 90.22 77.87 73.67 77.97 80.22 78.38 84.63 88.19 95.19 90.06 B
 Dots Congruent 96.33 94.96 98.61 96.00 96.86 99.65 99.30 99.67 99.62 99.55 98.50 91.47 B
Incongruent 86.93 86.12 92.62 88.05 88.77 90.46 89.51 93.83 96.38 95.02 89.73 76.37 D
Mixed 68.57 68.03 77.37 71.24 71.97 73.70 74.94 76.96 81.71 85.81 96.22 82.71 C
 Abstract Shapes Two-shapes 88.95 88.96 90.34 87.69 84.82 88.00 87.38 88.65 89.91 94.95 96.80 89.68 B
Six-shapes 76.87 77.16 87.39 73.29 72.60 73.97 81.34 78.42 79.16 86.46 89.92 79.69 C
 Average 84.67 83.13 90.07 83.17 81.99 84.54 85.55 86.77 88.93 91.75 95.19
Reaction time (in ms)
Pictures 1037.48 952.67 881.20 665.55 602.25 563.40 513.95 523.65 471.02 473.79 422.08 646.09 C
Arrows 1121.28 1150.60 1090.42 797.73 725.57 683.07 613.12 651.77 578.04 555.46 465.25 766.57 B E
 Dots Congruent 775.37 684.58 677.37 474.53 412.12 395.05 356.87 341.13 331.46 323.87 271.30 458.51 A
Incongruent 1023.12 905.75 875.02 619.87 546.27 501.63 444.02 451.83 398.09 402.87 321.28 589.98 C D
Mixed 1172.32 1195.47 1177.00 787.10 728.18 725.98 644.72 654.15 597.36 593.85 562.98 803.55 E
 Abstract Shapes Two-shapes 892.80 853.88 795.17 608.15 552.03 520.58 478.38 463.13 436.23 434.56 371.40 582.39 D
Six-shapes 1121.20 1038.10 987.53 726.72 694.15 662.98 640.55 612.53 592.23 568.29 532.93 743.38 B
 Average 1020.51 968.72 926.24 668.52 608.65 578.96 527.37 528.31 486.35 478.95 421.03
Percentage of anticipatory responses
Pictures 12.17 12.17 6.67 6.83 8.33 4.00 2.17 0.67 1.79 0.77 0.50 5.10 E
Arrows 19.33 17.00 9.00 21.33 23.17 18.67 10.83 9.00 6.96 2.31 0.50 12.56 B
 Dots Congruent 13.83 10.67 2.67 6.33 7.17 6.83 5.50 6.83 6.25 5.38 2.75 6.75 A
Incongruent 21.17 15.33 8.33 11.50 10.33 8.33 8.83 5.50 2.68 3.85 0.25 8.74 A
Mixed 28.67 21.00 15.00 23.00 25.50 26.67 16.17 11.33 5.18 4.42 3.50 16.40 D
 Abstract Shapes Two-shapes 18.00 11.50 7.75 8.42 7.08 6.58 3.67 4.42 2.50 1.35 0.88 6.56 A E
Six-shapes 18.00 17.83 11.58 15.33 15.33 13.83 6.08 5.83 4.73 2.98 2.75 10.39 B C
 Average 18.74 15.07 8.71 13.25 13.85 12.13 7.61 6.23 4.30 3.01 1.59