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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2014 Aug 17;232(4):765–776. doi: 10.1007/s00213-014-3711-2

Table 1.

Drug use for all subjects, and high and low WM capacity groups.

Variable All Low WM High WM t p
N 17 7 7 - -
Age 25.94 (3.45) 25.57 (3.31) 27.28 (3.73) 1.3 .23
Age of First Drink 14.76 (4.19) 11.86 (4.85) 16.00 (1.41) 2.2 .05
Drinking days 15.17 (7.84) 15.29 (10.24) 15.14 (6.79) .03 .97
Drinks per drinking day 4.50 (2.83) 5.59 (3.82) 4.22 (1.75) .86 .41
Heavy drinking episodes 7.00 (9.06) 8.14 (10.56) 7.57 (9.81) .10 .92
Peak standard drinks 8.41 (3.99) 10.14 (4.88) 7.57 (3.05) 1.18 .26
AUDIT score 12.76 (6.89) 14.43 (8.36) 11.57 (5.86) .74 .47
Cigarette smoking days 7.88 (12.87) 10.86 (14.15) 8.29 (14.16) .34 .74
Marijuana use days 6.70 (12.20) .29 (.49) 12.1 (15.19) 2.06 .06
Working memory span 46.07 (19.13) 31.29 (8.79) 60.86 (14.33) 4.65 <.01

Notes. AUDIT – Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test. *Working memory span was measured using an automated operation span task, provided to us by Dr. Randall Engle.