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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Appl. 2009 Mar;15(1):12–24. doi: 10.1037/a0014947

Table 4. Summary of Means for the Working Memory, Processing Speed, Inductive Reasoning, and Task-Switching Tasks.

Group Working memory:
Operation span
(no. words)
Processing speed:
Dot comparison (ms)
Inductive reasoning:
Letter series (%)
Task switching
Trail making A (s) Trail making B (s)
Young controllers 16.44 (1.36) 1645.53 (56.83) 0.87 (0.02) 21.92 (1.36) 25.50 (1.95)
Old controllers 13.94 (1.87) 2319.08 (64.17) 0.71 (0.04) 30.34 (1.77) 35.28 (1.87)
Young noncontrollers 23.88 (5.74) 1678.07 (86.23) 0.87 (0.02) 42.08 (1.45) 47.37 (2.68)
Old noncontrollers 14.31 (3.37) 2379.94 (107.32) 0.71 (0.03) 62.84 (4.88) 76.42 (5.17)

Note. Standard errors appear within parentheses.