Table 2.
Correlation analyses for (A) the congenitally blind, and (B) sighted controls. Significant correlations in bold.
| A | Age | Education | Verbal memory T1 | Verbal memory T2 | Verbal memory T3 | Phonemic fluency | Semantic fluency | Digit span | Spatial memory | Spatial imagery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | .65* | -.35 | -.57 | -.65* | .06 | .16 | -.4 | -.41 | -.31 | |
| Education | -.18 | -.32 | -.48 | .39 | .35 | .16 | -.46 | -.42 | ||
| Verbal memory T1 | .82** | .69* | -.24 | -.03 | .08 | -.13 | -.19 | |||
| Verbal memory T2 | .84** | -.11 | .14 | .14 | -.1 | -.2 | ||||
| Verbal memory T3 | -.02 | .03 | .13 | .19 | -.67 | |||||
| Phonemic fluency | .58* | .58* | .4 | .14 | ||||||
| Semantic fluency | .26 | .12 | -.43 | |||||||
| Digit span | .51 | .27 | ||||||||
| Spatial memory | .77** | |||||||||
| Spatial imagery | ||||||||||
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| * p < .05 | ||||||||||
| ** p < .01 | ||||||||||
| B | Age | Education | Verbal memory T1 | Verbal memory T2 | Verbal memory T3 | Phonemic fluency | Semantic fluency | Digit span | Spatial memory | Spatial imagery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | -.07 | -.48 | -.44 | -.37 | -.29 | -.75** | .02 | -.42 | -.49 | |
| Education | -.05 | -.07 | -.15 | .39 | .36 | .43 | .52 | .21 | ||
| Verbal memory T1 | .66* | .42 | -.18 | .11 | -.06 | -.08 | .24 | |||
| Verbal memory T2 | .75** | .16 | .37 | .12 | .38 | .28 | ||||
| Verbal memory T3 | .33 | .46 | .11 | .45 | .47 | |||||
| Phonemic fluency | .55* | .26 | .63* | .57 | ||||||
| Semantic fluency | -.06 | .75** | .42 | |||||||
| Digit span | .5 | .05 | ||||||||
| Spatial memory | .43 | |||||||||
| Spatial imagery |
*
p < .05
**
p < .01