Table 3.

Relationship of right Brodmann’s area 9 and neurocognitive performance, a representation of the correlations between brain gray matter volumes and neurocognition in this study

Criterion	Step 1			Step 2			Step 3			Step 4
	Age, Sex, ICV			Right Brodmann’s area 9			Group			Interaction
	β	Δr2	f2	β	Δr2	f2	β	Δr2	f2	β	Δr2	f2
WISC Verbal comp	--	0.243*	0.32	0.40	0.149*	0.25	0.59	0.282***	0.87	0.05	0.002	0.01
WCST_PE	--	0.106	0.12	0.21	0.039	0.05	0.41	0.145*	0.20	−0.14	0.016	0.02
WCST_CLR	--	0.196	0.24	0.29	0.076	0.10	0.51	0.220***	0.43	−0.02	0.000	0.00
CPT_AX	--	0.234*	0.31	0.15	0.020	0.03	0.72	0.438***	1.40	−0.04	0.001	000
CPT_IP	--	0.220*	0.28	0.22	0.044	0.06	0.60	0.303***	0.70	−0.01	0.000	0.00
CVLT 1–5	--	0.189	0.23	0.26	0.061	0.08	0.48	0.193**	0.34	0.16	0.021	0.04

Medium and large effect sizes (f²) are bolded. Positive β at step 2 indicate larger volume is associated with better cognitive performance, at step 3 indicates better cognitive performance in the control group than in the 22q11DS patient group.

^*p < 0.05

^**p<0.01

^***p<0.001