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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 29.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Bull. 2010 May;136(3):375–389. doi: 10.1037/a0018883

Table 2.

Combined Effect Sizes by Domain and Outcome Variable

Outcome variable Combined effect size Variance SE 95% CI
Q df I2
LL UL
Simple attention
 Lapses −0.762** 0.009 0.095 −0.948 −0.576 112.18 16 61.6
 Reaction time −0.732** 0.005 0.072 −0.874 −0.590 97.04 25 54.1
Complex attention
 Accuracy −0.479** 0.007 0.082 −0.640 −0.318 56.79 24 31.7
 Reaction time −0.312** 0.003 0.059 −0.429 −0.197 192.57 36 53.5
Processing speed
 Accuracy −0.245 0.017 0.130 −0.500 0.010 72.99 11 52.1
 Reaction time −0.302** 0.007 0.083 −0.464 −0.140 194.77 19 62.4
Working memory
 Accuracy −0.555** 0.009 0.095 −0.741 −0.368 113.79 25 55.4
 Reaction time −0.515** 0.009 0.097 −0.704 −0.326 92.95 16 66.3
Short-term memory
 Recall −0.383* 0.018 0.135 −0.647 −0.118 37.85 11 55.1
 Recognition −0.378* 0.016 0.125 −0.624 −0.132 13.91 4 13.9
Reasoning
 Accuracy −0.125 0.005 0.072 −0.268 0.016 14.59 11 5.4

Note. CI = confidence interval; LL = lower limit; UL = upper limit.

*

p < .01.

**

p < .001.