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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2015 May 21;24(1):31–41. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2015.05.010

TABLE 3.

Estimated Effect Sizes for Individual Measures (Hedge’s g [Standard Error])

Cognitive Flexibility DRS I/P Planning and Organization Response Inhibition Verbal Fluency Selective Attention
Alexopoulos et al.4
 DRS I/P total 0.50 (0.20)
 Stroop Color-Word 0.49 (0.20)
Alexopoulos et al.27
 Go/No-Go commission errors −0.42 (0.54)
 WCST % perseverative errors −0.23 (0.54)
Kalayam & Alexopoulos65
 DRS I/P total 1.06 (0.45)
 Stroop accuracy 0.33 (0.42)
 Stroop reaction time 0.64 (0.43)
Morimoto et al.13
 DRS I/P complex verbal clusters 0.79 (0.25)
 DRS I/P verbal perseverations −0.15 (0.24)
Potter et al.66
 Animal Naming total correct 0.10 (0.23)
 Animal Naming perseverative errors 0.24 (0.23)
 COWAT total correct −0.09 (0.23)
 COWAT perseverative errors 0.41 (0.24)
 Trails B −0.22 (0.23)
Sheline et al.67
 COWAT 0.20 (0.16)
 Trails B 0.35 (0.16)
 Stroop Color-Word 0.14 (0.16)
 DRS I/P 0.24 (0.16)
 WCST categories completed 0.27 (0.16)
Sneed, et al.56
 Stroop Color-Word 0.27 (0.24)
Devanand et al.12
 Category fluency −0.37 (0.41)
 Animal Naming 0.05 (0.41)
 Digit Symbol 0.21 (0.41)
 Letter Cancellation time −0.4 (0.41)
 Shape Cancellation time 0.12 (0.41)

Notes: COWAT: Controlled Oral Word Association Test.