Table 2. Behavioral data on the task switching paradigm for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), and healthy controls.
Event type | OCD (N = 18) | MDD (N = 19) | Controls (N = 29) | ||||||||||
RTs (ms) | Error % | RTs (ms) | Error % | RTs (ms) | Error % | ||||||||
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
Repeat events (REs) | 1179 | 203 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1155 | 300 | 5.6 | 7.0 | 1025 | 220 | 5.5 | 5.1 | |
Switch events (SEs) | 1540 | 247 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 1664 | 359 | 7.0 | 8.9 | 1474 | 325 | 9.4 | 11.2 | |
Switch cost (SE-RE) | T | p | T | p | T | p | T | p | T | p | T | p | |
−6.8 | .0001 | −2.0 | .05 | −11.2 | .0001 | −1.6 | .12 | −11.1 | .0001 | −2.5 | .03 |