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. 2019 Jan 17;14(1):e0210568. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210568

Table 2. Correlation matrix of cognitive test scores’ pairwise correlation coefficients and univariable associations between visit day and mean (standard devation) of cognitive test scores.

Pairwise Correlation Coefficents Mean (SD) test scores
LC1 DID1 IID2 NFC3 NFM3 NRC3 NRM3 LT4 Visit 1 Visit 2 p*
Letter cancellation (LC)1 1 18.9 (7.6) 26.3 (7.0) <0.01
Direct image difference (DID)1 0.1890 1 1.4 (1.4) 2.3 (1.6) <0.01
Indirect image difference (IID)2 0.1668 0.3137 1 1.6 (1.5) 2.3 (1.6) <0.01
Forward number recall- total (NFC)3 0.1465 0.1775 0.2985 1 5.0 (1.4) 5.5 (1.5) <0.01
Forward number recall- maximum digit span (NFM)3 0.1360 0.2228 0.2975 0.7235 1 4.1 (1.0) 4.3 (1.0) 0.04
Reverse number recall- total (NRC)3 0.0870 0.0885 0.2052 0.3310 0.2473 1 3.4 (1.8) 3.6 (1.6) 0.64
Reverse number recall-maximum digit span (NRM)3 0.1013 0.0234 0.2128 0.2208 0.1705 0.8440 1 3.2 (1.3) 3.3 (1.1) 0.41
Line trace (LT)4 0.2302 0.1049 0.0947 0.0704 0.0961 -0.0693 -0.0858 1 13.4 (7.8) 17.2 (6.0) <0.01

Bold values indicate a significant association at α = 0.05

*p-value based on paired t-tests

Target skills assed by test:

1visual attention

2visual memory

3short-term memory

4visuomotor skills