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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2008 Aug;51(4):1042–1054. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/076)

Table 5.

Means and SD (in parenthesis) of the amount of decrement (=absolute difference in percent correct scores between the single-task and the dual-task.) in digit recall due to a competing word recognition task.

Age-group 3-digit decrement 5-digit decrement N
7-8 35.2 (19.5) 31.7 (20.8) 16
9-10 15.6 (11.4) 30.0 (23.7) 16
11-12 20.2 (18.0) 28.5 (17.9) 16
13-14 7.5 (9.9) 20.1 (15.9) 16