Table 2.

Pearson’s r-values for correlations between reading ability and measures of attention and backward masking thresholds.

Correlations with reading (r-value)	WJIIWA	WJIII LWID	WJIII BR	TOWRE S	TOWRE P	TOWRET
Sustained Auditory Attention	0.28	0.09	0.20	0.31	0.29	0.33
Sustained Visual Attention	0.35	0.20	0.30	0.41	0.27	0.38
Auditory Cued Attention	−0.15	−0.05	−0.11	−0.17	−0.17	−0.19
Auditory Uncued Attention	−0.26	−0.10	−0.19	−0.23	−0.22	−0.25
Visual Cued Attention	−0.00	0.09	0.04	−0.10	0.02	−0.06
Visual Uncued Attention	−0.18	0.03	−0.07	−0.20	−0.15	−0.20
Backward masking, no gap	−0.43	−0.39	−0.44	−0.32	−0.48	−0.46
Backward masking, 50 ms gap	−0.14	−0.11	−0.14	0.06	−0.18	−0.055
WASI performance IQ	0.24	0.45	0.39	0.12	0.15	0.15
WASI verballQ	0.11	0.54	0.38	0.41	0.14	0.32
WASI TotallQ	0.33	0.64	0.53	0.38	0.25	0.37

Bolded entries are significant at p < 0.05. Bolded entries are significant at p < 0.05. All significant relationships were in the direction of less variability in tapping correlating with better behavioral performance.