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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2010 Dec;25(4):949–962. doi: 10.1037/a0020000

Table 4. Results of the Tests of the Fixed Effects for Rotor Performance, Verbal Fluency, Grammatical Complexity, and Linguistic Content Measures.

Tests of Fixed Effects
Task Difficulty
(2, 194)
Age Group
(1, 195)
Task Difficulty x
Age Group
(2, 194)
Performance
Time on Task 2736.57** <1.0 2.28
Error 6006.49** <1.0 3.08
Fluency
Speech rate 341.70 ** 60.73** 36.66**
% with Fillers 70.77** 282.14** 61.37**
% Grammatical 11.81** 38.82** 54.75**
Mean Length Utterance 390.55** 43.67** 100.54**
Complexity
Developmental Level 250.52** 21.26** 17.45**
Grammatical Index 2169.48** 28.10** 32.34**
Content
Propositional Density 7908.61** 339.36** 1313.81**
Coherence Index 399.96** 11.18** 23.08**
Type Token Ratio 5.01* 11.42** 14.60**
*

p < .05

**

p < .01