Table 3.
Correlations between working memory measures and performance on following-instructions tasks, controlling for age
| Following-Instructions Task | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual | |||
| Real-World | Single-Room | Multiroom | |
| Working Memory Measures | |||
| Verbal Short-Term Memory | |||
| Digit recall | .470** | .451** | .496** |
| Nonword recall | .316* | .346* | .292 |
| Composite | .447** | .453** | .449** |
| Visuospatial Short-Term Memory | |||
| Dot matrix | .158 | .055 | .192 |
| Block recall | .136 | .021 | .248 |
| Composite | .174 | .045 | .261 |
| Verbal Working Memory | |||
| Listening recall | .285 | .349* | .304 |
| Backward digit recall | .182 | .249 | .277 |
| Composite | .264 | .338* | .330* |
| Visuospatial Working Memory | |||
| Mr. X | .327* | .145 | .180 |
| Spatial recall | .113 | .149 | .289 |
| Composite | .250 | .167 | .266 |
| Working Memory Factor Scores | |||
| Factor 1 | .097 | –.009 | .163 |
| Factor 2 | .399* | .457** | .403** |
* p < .05, ** p < .01.