Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2003 Apr;27(4):647–656. doi: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000060525.10536.F6

Table 9.

Performance on Executive Functioning Tasks by Threshold of Exposure Grouping

Heavier exposure
Light or no exposure
Variable n Mean SD n Mean SD Kruskal-Wallis test statistic
Alcohol
 Tapping inhibition 36 7.4 5.5 142 8.7 5.7 1.7
 Category fluency 46 4.8 3.4 213 5.3 3.3 1.0
 Motor planning 50 3.3 1.8 230 3.4 2.0 0.4
Cocaine
 Tapping inhibition 50 7.8 5.9 128 8.7 5.6 1.7
 Category fluency 74 5.0 3.5 185 5.3 3.3 0.8
 Motor planning 69 3.6 2.0 211 3.4 2.0 0.5
Marijuana
 Tapping inhibition 9 5.8 3.8 169 8.6 5.7 2.6*
 Category fluency 11 5.5 3.8 248 5.2 3.4 0.03
 Motor planning 7 3.4 1.8 253 3.4 2 0.1
*

p < 0.10.