Table 5.
Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) for the far transfer measures as a function of session (pretest/posttest) separately for the five training groups for the younger age group.
| Training group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group 1 single task – bivalent stimuli | Group 2 with cue – univalent stimuli | Group 3 with cue – bivalent stimuli | Group 4 without cue – univalent stimuli | Group 5 without cue – bivalent stimuli | ||
| Session | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | |
| Counting span (% correct items) | ||||||
| Pretest | 82 (9) | 82 (14) | 81 (13) | 82 (11) | 78 (12) | |
| Posttest | 83 (12) | 86 (14) | 80 (14) | 81 (11) | 80 (12) | |
| Reading span (% correct items) | ||||||
| Pretest | 81 (10) | 76 (14) | 78 (13) | 76 (18) | 76 (15) | |
| Posttest | 77 (12) | 78 (15) | 78 (16) | 79 (15) | 82 (10) | |
| Digit backward (% correct items) | ||||||
| Pretest | 36 (9) | 36 (7) | 36 (11) | 35 (11) | 36 (8) | |
| Posttest | 41 (9) | 37 (8) | 40 (9) | 37 (12) | 42 (16) | |
| 2-back (proportion of hits minus false alarms) | ||||||
| Pretest | 0.50 (0.26) | 0.45 (0.30) | 0.41 (0.26) | 0.41 (0.32) | 0.58 (0.19) | |
| Posttest | 0.58 (0.20) | 0.52 (0.19) | 0.50 (0.25) | 0.45 (0.28) | 0.60 (0.20) | |
| Color–Stroop Interference (ms) | ||||||
| Pretest | 38.2 (45.9) | 27.4 (57.3) | 13.1 (50.7) | 37.3 (31.7) | 27.1 (52.2) | |
| Posttest | 27.3 (26.0) | 19.4 (52.9) | 36.1 (49.3) | 22.7 (40.0) | 15.6 (34.4) | |
| Number–Stroop Interference (ms) | ||||||
| Pretest | 13.2 (30.6) | 20.8 (44.1) | 36.2 (28.8) | 10.9 (37.4) | 26.9 (32.9) | |
| Posttest | 15.4 (21.2) | 7.9 (34.0) | 12.7 (36.3) | 24.2 (36.2) | 12.6 (26.4) | |
| AX–CPT Interference (ms) | ||||||
| Pretest | 75 (63) | 80 (76) | 141 (101) | 120 (73) | 125 (108) | |
| Posttest | 86 (51) | 77 (69) | 91 (53) | 102 (65) | 118 (65) | |
| Raven | ||||||
| Pretest | 10.9 (2.4) | 11.4 (3.2) | 11.4 (2.2) | 11.5 (2.4) | 11.6 (2.7) | |
| Posttest | 11.0 (1.6) | 9.8 (3.2) | 11.5 (1.8) | 10.0 (2.8) | 10.5 (2.6) | |