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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn. 2012 May 29;20(1):101–124. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2012.691152

Table 4.

Accuracy to the Ongoing Lexical Decision Task for Delay-Execute PM Memory

Younger Adults Older Adults

Focal Nonfocal Focal Nonfocal

Before After Before After Before After Before After
Yes-Yes Trials
Words .91 (.02) .93 (.02) .90 (.02) .88 (.02) .97 (.02) .97 (.02) .90 (.02) .90 (.02)
Nonwords .93 (.02) .95 (.02) .93 (.02) .91 (.02) .92 (.02) .93 (.02) .98 (.03) .91 (.03)

Yes-No Trials
Words .91 (.03) .98 (.03) .84 (.03) .83 (.03) .95 (.03) .96 (.03) .89 (.03) .85 (.03)
Nonwords .88 (.03) .92 (.03) .95 (.03) .92 (.03) .93 (.03) .91 (.03) .98 (.02) .90 (.02)

No-Yes Trials
Words .87 (.04) .92 (.04) .90 (.04) .88 (.04) .91 (.07) 1.0 (.07) .88 (.03) .88 (.03)
Nonwords .89 (.04) .90 (.04) .94 (.04) .93 (.04) .98 (.07) 1.0 (.07) .96 (.03) .89 (.03)

No-No Trials
Words .95 (.06) .99 (.05) .89 (.03) .94 (.03) .87 (.04) .91 (.04) .90 (.03) .88 (.03)
Nonwords .95 (.06) .94 (.06) .91 (.03) .90 (.03) .88 (.05) .84 (.05) .96 (.03) .98 (.03)

Note. Standard errors are presented in parentheses below the mean.