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. 2013 Apr 24;8(4):e59600. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059600

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