Table 5.

Means, standard deviations according to cool and hot executive function tasks for age groups with IQ as covariance.

	Age						ANOVA
	12	13	14	15	16	17	F	Post-hoc
	(N = 27)	(N = 27)	(N = 35)	(N = 31)	(N = 39)	(N = 26)		(N = 26)
COOL EF
Backward	11.24	11.65	11.83	13.48	13.70	14.81	6.26***	17>14,13,12;
digit-span	(2.52)	(2.68)	(2.77)	(2.52)	(2.68)	(2.79)		16,15>12
CNT-	11.32	11.90	11.63	12.56	13.35	14.56	5.79***	17>15,14,13,12;
attention control	(1.81)	(2.22)	(2.17)	(2.56)	(2.64)	(2.94)		16>12
CNT-	3.52	3.73	3.77	4.07	4.66	4.73	4.03**	17,16>12
cognitive flexibility	(1.05)	(1.00)	(1.36)	(.91)	(1.34)	(1.09)
Stroop-	11.44	11.30	11.83	12.70	13.64	13.29	3.00*	16>13,12
interference	(3.93)	(1.42)	(1.83)	(1.40)	(2.60)	(3.32)
SOC-	7.48	8.10	7.87	8.17	8.53	10.05	3.45**	17>15,14,13,12
problem solved in minimum move	(2.10)	(2.19)	(1.96)	(2.27)	(2.22)	(1.80)
HOT EF
CGT-	0.69	0.95	1.44	1.19	0.88	0.54	3.87**	14>12; 14>17
risk adjustment	(0.66)	(0.75)	(0.82)	(0.94)	(0.92)	(0.53)
CGT-	0.18	0.22	0.31	0.33	0.22	0.21	1.30
delay aversion	(0.26)	(0.37)	(0.20)	(0.29)	(0.25)	(0.19)

CNT, Contingency Naming Test; CGT, Cambridge Gambling Task; SOC, Stockings of Cambridge.

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01,

^***p < 0.001.