Table 1.
Demographic and performance characteristics of subjects enrolled in the study
| Right‐handed | Atypical | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N, % females | 158 | 55.1 | 82 | 54.9 |
| Age, yearsa | 43.5 | 15.1 | 35.7 | 12.3 |
| Cerebral volume, ml | 1426.5 | 133.7 | 1441.8 | 168.1 |
| Language assessments | ||||
| Boston Naming Test score | 56.3 | 4.3 | 55.7 | 4.3 |
| Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test scoreb | 213.4 | 12.0 | 211.3 | 10.8 |
| Controlled Oral Word Association Test score | 39.6 | 11.5 | 40.7 | 12.1 |
| Semantic Fluency Test score | 56.6 | 12.7 | 56.3 | 14.1 |
| Complex Ideation score | 11.5 | 0.8 | 11.4 | 1.0 |
| Noun recognition accuracy, % correctc | 92.8 | 7.7 | 93.6 | 8.5 |
Note. Data are reported as mean and S.D. except for number of subjects (N), which are reported as frequency and percentages.
a
Right‐handed subjects were significantly older than those with atypical handedness (p < 0.001).
b
Not assessed for one right‐handed female subject.
c
Assessed for 141 right‐handed subjects and 73 subjects with atypical handedness who completed the verb generation fMRI task.