Table 5.

Descriptive (means and standard deviations) and inferential (Group [ASD, comparison] × Condition [item, background, combination] mixed-design ANOVA) statistics for relational memory task dependent measures.

Dependent measure	Condition	Descriptive statistics			Inferential statistics
					Group			Condition			Group × condition
		ASD	Comparison	Total	F(1, 38)	p	r	F(2, 76)	p	r	F(2, 76)	p	r
Hit rate	Item	0.74 (0.21)	0.81 (0.17)	0.78 (0.19)
	Background	0.68 (0.21)	0.76 (0.14)	0.72 (0.18)
	Combination	0.57 (0.28)	0.67 (0.23)	0.62 (0.26)
	Total	0.67 (0.24)	0.75 (0.19)	0.71 (0.22)
					2.61	0.114	0.25	9.54	<0.001	0.33	0.08	0.923	0.10
False alarm rate	Item	0.10 (0.23)	0.04 (0.10)	0.07 (0.18)
	Background	0.03 (0.07)	0.03 (0.07)	0.03 (0.07)
	Combination	0.34 (0.21)	0.41 (0.25)	0.37 (0.23)
	Total	0.15 (0.23)	0.16 (0.24)	0.16 (0.23)
					0.05	0.822	0.04	54.21	<0.001	0.70	1.53	0.227	0.16
Corrected hit rate	Item	0.64 (0.28)	0.77 (0.20)	0.70 (0.25)
	Background	0.66 (0.24)	0.73 (0.15)	0.69 (0.21)
	Combination	0.23 (0.24)	0.26 (0.23)	0.25 (0.24)
	Total	0.51 (0.32)	0.59 (0.30)	0.55 (0.31)	2.12	0.154	0.23	68.54	<0.001	0.69	0.61	0.547	0.09

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