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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2014 Jun 16;44:81–88. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2014.06.003

Table 3.

Adjusted mean (± SD) stimulus-locked ERP parameters by prenatal cigarette smoking exposure

Not exposed (n = 35)
Exposed (n = 140)
F-ratio
Go No-go Go No-go Smoking Smoking x condition
N2 latency (msec) 376.9 ± 34.8 376.5 ± 50.1 377.0 ± 43.6 368.5 ± 54.1 0.31 (n.s.) 0.38 (n.s.)
N2 amplitude (µV) −7.4 ± 5.6 −11.7 ±9.0 −7.3 ± 5.0 −6.5 ± 7.3 5.88* 13.41**
P3 amplitude (µV) 6.5 ± 4.4 13.9 ± 6.7 4.5 ± 5.1 9.2 ± 7.2 8.97** 5.30*

F-ratio for RM_MANOVAs adjusting for child age and sex, current Pb concentrations, birth weight, education of the primary caregiver, maternal non-verbal reasoning abilities, cord Pb, and cord Hg concentrations.

*

p < 0.05

**

p < 0.01.

n.s.: non significant (p > 0.15).