Table 1.

Means and Standard Deviations of Background Measures within Title (Contextual Knowledge), WM Span, and Age Groups.

		No Title (No Contextual Knowledge)						Title (Contextual Knowledge)
		Low WM Span			High WM Span			Low WM Span			High WM Span
		Young n = 28	Middle n = 20	Older n = 22	Young n = 22	Middle n = 30	Older n = 28	Young n = 22	Middle n = 23	Older n = 25	Young n = 28	Middle n = 27	Older n = 25
Age	M	26.61	46.75	70.55	25.41	49.67	67.57	26.09	49.48	70.72	25.14	46.56	68.60
	SD	4.49	8.43	6.41	4.09	7.57	5.17	3.91	6.56	6.95	4.15	6.48	5.37
Education	M	16.64	15.05	16.09	16.95	16.57	17.71	16.82	15.26	15.80	16.32	16.81	17.76
	SD	2.64	3.17	2.58	2.54	1.77	3.55	2.44	2.16	2.87	2.52	2.37	2.18
Vocabulary	M	15.00	16.46	20.92	20.16	24.67	26.56	15.85	19.01	23.09	18.64	23.22	25.58
	SD	8.17	9.20	6.94	7.73	8.21	8.02	6.55	8.66	7.83	6.88	8.30	7.39
WM Span	M	4.55	3.23	3.13	6.51	5.95	5.77	4.43	3.84	3.17	6.56	5.82	5.36
	SD	.70	.65	.85	.87	1.06	1.19	.68	.56	.87	.74	1.12	.91

Note. WM = working memory.