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. 2010 Dec;107(4-5):377–393. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.06.003

Table 2.

Study 1: Sentence Completion Task TD participant results by age group.

8–10 years 11–13 years 14–16 years 17–25 years Kruskal–Wallis χ2 p Post hoc Mann–Whitney U test, p <.05
Completion score (maximum = 20) 17.47 (2.28) 17.38 (2.56) 18.52 (2.18) 18.51 (1.63) 13.26 .004 8–10, 11–13 > 14–16, 17–25
Range 8–20 10–20 10–20 13–20



Number local completions (maximum = 10) 0.74 (1.11) 0.90 (1.28) 0.59 (1.06) 0.44 (0.69) 3.70 .30
Range 0–6 0–5 0–5 0–2



Response time to test stems (s) 3.91 (1.87) 3.12 (1.72) 1.89 (0.74) 2.56 (1.60) 43.43 <.0005 8–10 > 11–13, 14–16, 17–25; 11–13, 17–25 > 14–16
Range 1.25–11.60 1.05–10.10 0.80–3.90 0.70–9.75

Note. Values are means and standard deviations (in parentheses).