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. 2015 Mar 10;5:59. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00059

Table 1.

Meta-analytic studies and examined cognitive domains (k = number of comparisons within a meta-analysis, N = combined number of participants).

Cognitive domain Authors (reference, K = Study N)
Falleti et al. [(10), K = 6] Jansen et al. [(13), K = 16]a Stewart et al. [(15), K = 7] Jim et al. [(11), K = 17]


Cross-sectional Prospective Both cross-sectional and prospective
Attention k = 36, N = 330 k = 3 N = 830 k = 14, N = 366 k = 21
Executive function k = 31, N = 330 k = 5 N = 996 Working memory: k = 15, N = 266 k = 19
Information processing speed N/A N = 617 k = 23, N = 336 k = 11
Motor speed/function k = 12, N = 275 k = 2 N = 816 k = 16, N = 325 k = 11
Verbal ability/language k = 3, N = 70 N = 795 k = 12, N = 372 k = 15
Visuospatial ability/skill k = 5, N = 153 k = 1 N = 782 k = 10, N = 344 k = 9
Memory k = 35, N = 330 k = 4 N/A N/A N/A
Verbal memory N/A N = 902 N/A k = 23
Visual memory N/A N = 591 N/A k = 21
Short-term memory N/A N/A k = 18, N = 328 N/A
Long-term Memory N/A N/A k = 21, N = 364 N/A

aK = 9 focusing on breast cancer.