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. 2014 Mar 3;9(3):e89912. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089912

Figure 4. Chronic gestational stress impairs cognitive flexibility.

Figure 4

Compared to postpartum females who were unstressed, postpartum females stressed in pregnancy showed impairments on the reversal (REV) and extra dimensional (EDS) phases of the attentional set shifting task as demonstrated by more trials (a) and errors (b) to reach criterion. The number of trials (a) and errors (b) to reach criterion for the simple discrimination (SD), compound discrimination (CD) and intradimensional shift (IDS) did not differ between unstressed and stressed mothers. Bars represent mean ± SEM, * p<0.05.