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. 2013 Jun 20;7:292. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00292

Table 2.

Coefficients and t-statistics for age and learning mixed effects model.

Predictor β t
Age (linear) −0.318 −94.6***
Age (quadratic) −0.003 −11.7***
Education (1–7, some high school – PhD) 0.957 32.7***
Gender (Male = 1, Female = −1) 0.558 12.8***
C1: Fluid (1,1) vs. Crystallized (−1,−1) −3.887 −83.5***
C2: Memory Match (1) vs. Memory Matrix (1) −0.934 −12.3***
C3: Raindrops (1) vs. Word Bubbles (1) −1.807 −35.6***
Session [t(1) = 0, t(25) = 1] 15.8 265.1***
C1 × Age (linear) −0.079 −32.9***
C2 × Age (linear) 0.017 4.3***
C3 × Age (linear) −0.063 −26***
C1 × Age (quadratic) 0.003 20.3***
C2 × Age (quadratic) 0.001 4.7***
C3 × Age (quadratic) −0.0005 −2.7**
C1 × Education −0.494 −28.9***
C2 × Education −0.171 −6.3***
C3 × Education 0.235 12.5***
C1 × Gender 0.297 11.4***
C2 × Gender −0.172 −4.1***
C3 × Gender 1.577 56.4***
C1 × Session 1.546 25.9***
C2 × Session 5.468 54.2***
C3 × Session −0.106 1.7
Session × Age (linear) −0.099 −34.2***
Session × Age (quadratic) 0.001 4.8
C1 × Age (linear) × Session −0.057 −19.5***
C2 × Age (linear) × Session 0.006 1.3
C3 × Age (linear) × Session 0.004 1.2
C1 × Age (quadratic) × Session 0.000 1
C2 × Age (quadratic) × Session −0.003 −8.0***
C3 × Age (quadratic) × Session −0.001 −5.4***

The model was fit using the lmer function, part of the lme4 package in R. Significance values are based on highest posterior density intervals derived from 10000 Markov Chain Monte Carlo samples, using the pvals.fnc function in R's languageR package.

*p < 0.01,

**

p < 0.001,

***

p < 0.0001.