Table 2. Correlations between food intake and memory.

Pearson r correlations between calorie intake for the first 5 days and for 8 weeks, and multiple measures of memory in the spatial water maze.

	Time in target quadrant	Latency to target quadrant	Proximity	Pathlength	Latency to platform location
Lard intake (kcal)
For first 5 days	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	r(19)=.468 p=0.043	n.s.
For 8 weeks	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	r(19)=.470 p=0.040	n.s.
Sugar intake (kcal)
For first 5 days	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.
For 8 weeks	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.
Total intake (kcal)
For first 5 days	r(52)= −.303 p=0.029	n.s.	r(52)=.294 p=0.035	r(33)=.511 p=0.002	r(33)=.490 p=0.004
For 8 weeks	r(52)= −.307 p=0.027	n.s.	r(52)=.294 p=0.034	r(33)=.565 p=0.001	r(33)=.519 p=0.001

Non-significant correlations are labeled n.s.