Table 3.
All participants’ test scores (assessed offline) and performance on the auditory sentence verification task (in the scanner).
| Measure | Preterm |
Full-term |
t-Test | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p | |
| Standardized test score | |||||
| WASI Full IQ | 109.8 | 18 | 121.8 | 12.8 | 0.34 |
| PPVT-III | 116.3 | 18.5 | 116.2 | 9.3 | 0.45 |
| CELF-IV receptive language | 109.1 | 17 | 114.6 | 10.2 | 0.52 |
| In-scanner sentence comprehension | |||||
| Mean # correct (maximum 24) | |||||
| Short/easy | 22.5 | 1.2 | 22.2 | 1.5 | 0.21 |
| Short/hard | 20.9 | 2.2 | 20.5 | 1.4 | 0.31 |
| Long/easy | 21.5 | 2.1 | 20.9 | 2.8 | 0.30 |
| Long/hard | 19.7 | 2.9 | 19.0 | 2.0 | 0.30 |
| Mean RT (ms) | |||||
| Short/easy | 1738 | 401 | 1851 | 377 | 0.21 |
| Short/hard | 1923 | 428 | 2003 | 408 | 0.10 |
| Long/easy | 1931 | 410 | 2169 | 422 | 0.01 |
| Long/hard | 2521 | 418 | 2670 | 500 | 0.05 |
Note: Independent-samples t-test p-values for in-scanner performance are included at the request of a reviewer, but should be adjusted for multiple comparisons. In the text, we report results from ANOVAs for these measures.
WASI: Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; PPVT-III: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third edition; CELF-IV: Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, Fourth edition.