Table 1.

Demographic information and baseline performances of the participants in participants recruitment stage.

	Young group (N = 62)	Old group (N = 59)	t
Age	22.31 ± 2.47	67.00 ± 6.33	–51.64∗∗∗
Gender (Male/Female)	24/38	23/36	0.03
Years of education	15.15 ± 1.99	14.39 ± 2.43	1.88
Health status	1.66 ± 0.65	2.32 ± 0.66	5.56∗∗∗
Clock drawing scores	3.23 ± 0.79	3.64 ± 0.59	–1.31
EPQ-E	13.26 ± 5.01	14.32 ± 3.45	1.37
Word comprehension	15.26 ± 2.75	14.63 ± 3.19	1.17
Baseline item verbosity	0.57 ± 0.43	0.75 ± 0.30	–2.53∗
Baseline extent off-topic verbosity (OTV)	2.55 ± 2.23	3.46 ± 2.13	–2.29∗

In this and subsequent tables, ^∗∗∗indicates statistical significance at the 0.001 level and ^∗indicates statistical significance at the 0.05 level.