Table 1.
Participant Demographics
| Auditory Task | Visual Task | |||||
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| Variable | Group Means | Statistic | Group Means | Statistic | ||
| ASD (n=24) | TD (n=27) | ASD (n=22) | TD (n=24) | |||
| Age (years) | 11.94 ± 1.3 | 11.93 ± 1.3 | t = 0.02 | 11.96 ± 1.3 | 12.00 ± 1.3 | t = 0.09 |
| Full Scale IQ | 115.96 ± 17.4 | 114.50 ± 12.9 | t = −0.32 | 118.00 ± 16.6 | 114.70 ± 13.1 | t = −0.71 |
| Handednessa | 18 R; 5 L | 21 R; 2 L | χ2 = 1.52 | 15 R; 7 L | 19 R; 2 L | χ2 = 3.23 |
| Gender | 21 M; 3 F | 23 M; 4 F | χ2 = 0.06 | 20 M; 2 F | 20 M; 4 F | χ2 = 0.58 |
a
Handedness information missing for 1 child with ASD and 4 children with TD Within each task, groups were matched (i.e., there were no statistically significant differences) on all demographic variables.