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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2010 May;36(3):813–820. doi: 10.1037/a0019046

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for all Measures

Measure Mean SD Range Skew Kurtosis
Processing Speed
Symbol Search 41.09 6.80 39 −0.09 0.57
Digit Symbol Coding 88.25 13.27 75 −0.00 0.62
Primary Memory
PM N-back 8.73 1.15 6.50 −1.41 3.13
Working Memory
Operation Span 44.15 15.54 68 −0.03 −0.52
Listening Span 29.77 12.22 67 1.075 1.63
WM N-back 4.15 2.07 9.50 .19 −0.67
Secondary Memory
Story Recall 13.86 3.24 15.5 −.11 −.64
Verbal Paired Assoc. I 22.97 5.95 28 −1.04 .98
Family Pictures I 51.36 7.44 40 −1.31 2.10
Fluid Intelligence
Raven’s 25.50 4.04 19 −0.22 0.04
Block Design 45.79 10.94 52 −0.10 −0.67
Matrix Reasoning 19.89 2.92 17 −0.94 1.72

Note: N = 172 for all measures. Raw scores were used for the measures from the WAIS-III (processing speed) and the WMS-III (secondary memory), while weighted summary scores were used for the laboratory measures of working memory. The N-back task was divided into two components, the Primary Memory N-back measure includes the average of the raw scores for lags 0 and 1, while the Working Memory N-back includes the average of the raw scores for lags 2 and 3. Story Recall represents the average of the total number of items recalled from the first two stories in the WMS-III test, Logical Memory I. Verbal Paired Assoc. I represents the total score from the four recall trials of the WMS-III test. Fluid intelligence was represented by a combination of measures from the WAIS-III, in which raw scores were used, and the Raven’s, for which the total score was used.