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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: Vis cogn. 2006;14(4-8):749–780. doi: 10.1080/13506280500195292

Table Five.

Testing the significance of deviation from chance levels for cue strings of length 3. “Mean difference” is the difference between the average empirical chance level and the average performance for that position in the list. Even with a concern for statistical significance raised by the problem of multiple comparisons, it is clear that observers perform better than chance.

nback SOA Mean Diff. t(11) P-Value
0 50 msec 10% 2.69 0.021
1 50 msec 22% 7.11 <.0001
2 50 msec 31% 8.97 <.0001
0 150 msec 44% 6.31 <.0001
1 150 msec 32% 4.88 0.0005
2 150 msec 32% 4.67 0.0007
0 300 msec 56% 13.38 <.0001
1 300 msec 38% 6.95 <.0001
2 300 msec 40% 6.66 <.0001