Table 3.
Authors and design | Subjects | Cycle phases | Task | Result | Cohen's d |
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LONGITUDINAL | |||||
Gordon and Lee, 1993a | 34 NC/34 OC | 2–3/10–14/20–24 | Verbosequential score | No effect of phase or OC | 0.05 |
Griksiene and Ruksenas, 2011 | 20 NC/23 OC | 2–5/14/20 | Verbal fluency | No effect of phase, NC > OC | |
Hampson, 1990 | 50 NC | 3–5/–16 | Verbal fluency | No effect of phase | |
Hatta and Nagaya, 2009 | 30 NC | 2–3/21–22 | Verbal recall | No effect of phase | 0.23 |
Jacobs and D'Esposito, 2011b | 24 NC | 1–2/11–12 | Verbal working memory | No effect of phase | |
Konrad et al., 2008 | 12 NC | 1–3/19–23 | Synonym generation | No effect of phase | 0.04–0.23 |
Maki et al., 2002 | 16 NC | 1–3/19–24 | Verbal fluency | ↑ midluteal | 0.56 |
Implicit verbal memory | ↑ midluteal | 0.72 | |||
Explicit verbal memory | No effect of phase | −0.45 | |||
Mordecai et al., 2008 | 16 NC/20 OC | 2–4/20–22 | CVLT verbal recall | No effect of phase | 0.30 |
↑ active treatment in OC | |||||
Verbal fluency | No effect of phase or OC | 0.04 | |||
Phillips and Sherwin, 1992 | 25 NC | 3–4/19–24 | Immediate paragraph recall | No effect of phase | |
Delayed paragraph recall | No effect of Phase | ||||
Associate verbal recall | No effect of Phase | ||||
Digit span | No effect of phase | ||||
Solis-Ortiz and Corsi-Cabrera, 2008 | 9 NC | 1–2/13–14/20–21/24–25 | Verbal fluency | ↑ late follicular vs. late luteal | |
Rosenberg and Park, 2002 | 8 NC/10 OC | 0, 7, 14, 21 | Verbal working memory | ↑ day 7 and 14 vs. day 0 and 21 | |
No effect of OC | |||||
CROSS-SECTIONAL | |||||
Hampson et al., 2014c | 44 NC | lowE2/highE2 | Rhyme generation | No effect of phase | 0.21 |
Synonym generation | No effect of phase | −0.18 | |||
Halari et al., 2005 | 42 NC | 3–7 | Verbal fluency | No hormonal correlation |
NC, normal cycling; OC, oral contraceptive users; E2, estradiol; CVLT, California Verbal Learning Test.
Composite score consisting of perception, verbal recall and verbal fluency.
A COMT genotype by phase interaction was reported.
Subjects were grouped according to saliva estradiol concentrations, regardless if tests had been made in the follicular or luteal phase.