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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2014 Mar 12;36(4):379–398. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2014.893996

Table 5.

Follow-up partial correlations between substance use variable and cognitive measures in marijuana users controlling for sex and IQ.

Alcohol Usea Tobacco Useb Non-Marijuana
Drug Usec
Letter Cancellation
  Time 0.10 −0.20 0.32
COWAT – Verbal Fluency
  Total words −0.12 −0.16 0.03
  Total set-loss errorsd −0.21 −0.04 −0.32
RAVLT – Verbal Learning & Memory
  Total Words: Trial 5 0.47* −0.15 0.01
  Total Words: Interference Trial List 0.50* 0.11 0.06
  Total Words: Immediate Recall 0.56* −0.23 < −0.01
  Total Words: Delayed Recall 0.48* −0.18 0.33
  % of Learning Recalled During Delay 0.26 −0.18 0.43^
  Delayed Consistency 0.48* 0.07 0.01
Spatial Delayed Response Task
  Error: 8,000 ms delay −0.40^ 0.05 0.14
  Reaction Time: 500 ms delay −0.28 −0.29 0.01
  Reaction Time: 8,000 ms delay −0.30 −0.21 < −0.01
Tower of Londone
  % Perfect Solutions 0.35 0.04 0.05
  Average Moves 3 −0.40^ −0.24 −0.20
  First move initiation time 5 −0.20 −0.17 −0.36^
Iowa Gambling Task
  Good Choices-Bad Choices: Block 2 < −0.01 −0.13 −0.15
  Good Choices-Bad Choices: Block 4 0.21 0.09 −0.08
  Good Choices-Bad Choices: Block 5 −0.04 0.15 −0.18
  Good Choices: Total −0.21 −0.22 0.14
  Deck1 Choices 0.05 −0.08 < 0.01
  Deck 2 Choices −0.20 −0.04 0.24
  Deck 4 Choices −0.06 0.09 −0.22
a

Controlling for tobacco and non-marijuana drug use.

b

Controlling for alcohol and non-marijuana drug use.

c

Controlling for alcohol and tobacco use.

d

Square root transformed.

e

Data unavailable for 1 participant (n = 34).

^

p ≤ .05.

*

p ≤ .01.