Table 1.

Demographic and psychometric data for ASD and control groups

Subject information	ASD	Nonautistic subjects
No.	8	16
Gender, M/F	6/2	12/4
Age, years	31.8  ±  8.6	31.4  ±  12.1 [t (22) = 0.078, n.s.]
Education level	14.6  ±  1.8	15.6  ±  2.6 [t (22) = −0.990, n.s.]
WAIS-R IQ scales
Full scale	110.9  ±  18.1	112.9  ±  13.5 [t (22) = −0.315, n.s.]
Performance	106.1  ±  16.0	107.4  ±  10.3 [t (22) = −0.244, n.s.]
Verbal	114.0  ±  19.7	114.9  ±  16.4 [t (22) = −0.115, n.s.]

Values shown are means ± SD. n.s., not significant (P > 0.05).