Table 4.

Descriptive (means and standard deviations) and inferential (Group [ASD, comparison] × Condition [past, future, script] mixed-design ANOVA) statistics for the event description (episodic memory/episodic future thinking) task.

Dependent measure	Condition	Descriptive statistics			Inferential statistics
					Group				Condition				Group × condition
		ASD	Comparison	Total	F	df	p	r	F	df	p	r	F	df	p	r
Response specificity	Past	0.88 (0.20)	0.98 (0.07)	0.93 (0.15)
	Future	0.87 (0.27)	0.93 (0.14)	0.90 (0.22)
	Script	0.92 (0.21)	0.97 (0.10)	0.94 (0.17)
	Total	0.89 (0.23)	0.96 (0.11)	0.93 (0.18)
					3.06	1,38	0.089	0.27	0.86	2,76	0.429	0.11	0.29	2,76	0.753	0.06
Response accuracy	Past	0.88 (0.20)	0.98 (0.08)	0.93 (0.16)
	Future	0.83 (0.28)	0.94 (0.13)	0.89 (0.22)
	Script	0.90 (0.22)	0.98 (0.08)	0.94 (0.17)
	Total	0.87 (0.23)	0.97 (0.10)	0.92 (0.19)
					4.79	1,36	0.035	0.34	1.35	2,72	0.265	0.14	0.10	2,72	0.908	0.04
Proportion of script indicators	Past	0.08 (0.13)	0.07 (0.13)	0.07 (0.13)
	Future	0.32 (0.23)	0.36 (0.18)	0.34 (0.21)
	Script	0.66 (0.24)	0.61 (0.25)	0.64 (0.25)
	Total	0.35 (0.32)	0.35 (0.29)	0.35 (0.30)
					0.04	1,38	0.840	0.03	73.79	2,76	<0.001	0.70	0.52	2,72	0.597	0.08

Values in bold are significant at the p < 0.05 level.