. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 May 14.

Published in final edited form as: Mem Cognit. 2006 Dec;34(8):1754–1768. doi: 10.3758/bf03195936

Table 1.

Means (and SDs) for all Tasks in Each Age Group

Measure	Children	Adults
Auditory Span
maximum correct	6.33 (1.12)	7.13 (1.09) ^*
average number correct	4.03 (0.57)	4.51 (0.49) ^*
Visual Span
maximum correct	5.10 (0.98)	6.31 (0.98) ^*
average number correct	3.22 (0.57)	4.07 (0.56) ^*
Dual-Modality Task
Mean Number of Items Correct
Attended Auditory	3.59 (0.88)	4.26 (0.89) ^*
Attended Visual	1.68 (0.71)	3.00 (1.01) ^*
Ignored Auditory	3.35 (0.88)	3.36 (0.66) n.s.
Ignored Visual	1.69 (0.65)	2.26 (0.67) ^*
Auditory Alone	3.98 (0.84)	4.76 (0.80) ^*
Vowel detection d’	1.93 (0.90)	2.94 (0.94) ^*
Visual Array Capacity	2.41 (1.30)	3.59 (0.97) ^*
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
Vocabulary
Raw	27.02 (3.12)	37.44 (3.85) ^*
Age-adjusted	53.37 (6.03)	53.37 (6.70) n.s.
Pattern Analysis
Raw	34.12 (5.75)	39.60 (3.52) ^*
Age-adjusted	55.69 (7.31)	53.71 (4.33) n.s.

Note. Visual Array Capacity refers to the measure of Cowan (2001).

Age difference t test, p < .05, 2-tailed.