Table 4.

Mean memory performance for free recall and cued recognition performance across experience groups

	Clinicians	Trainees	Undergraduates	Age-matched laypeople
Baseline memory case
Overall recall	15.6 (6.9)	19.1 (6.6)	15.1 (5.4)	16.8 (6.7)
Average across coherent cases
Facts	8.81 (4.7)	14.5** (3.6)	10.4 (6.4)	11.9 (5.4)
Specific facts	4.24 (3.0)	8.73** (3.7)	6.17 (4.0)	5.88 (3.6)
Conjectured features	3.67 (3.0)	2.08* (1.2)	2.12* (1.4)	1.69** (1.3)
Corrected recognition scores	0.65 (0.18)	0.74* (0.11)	0.62 (0.13)	0.73 (0.14)
Jumble case
Facts	9.43 (5.6)	13.20 (4.4)	9.52 (5.0)	9.86 (4.8)
Specific facts	4.14 (4.0)	7.40 (3.7)	5.24 (3.4)	4.71 (3.1)
Conjectured features	3.62 (3.3)	2.45 (1.9)	1.57* (1.6)	1.71* (1.7)
Corrected recognition scores	0.72 (0.18)	0.84 (0.14)	0.77 (0.18)	0.75 (0.18)

Note: Numbers in parentheses represent standard deviations. Notation denotes a significant difference when compared with clinician data for that type of item.

^*p < .05,

^**p < .01;

italicized = p < .1 and p > .05.