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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2018 Jun 27;102:155–181. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2018.05.006

Table 2.

Summary of task performance on measures of individual differences.

Construct Task Measure Min. Mean Max. SD
Language experience ART Number correct with penalty −9 10 47 11.570
ERVT 1 17.180 36.750 7.740
CRH Sum of Likert responses 5 22 33 5.326
NAART Number correct 0.283 0.560 0.885 0.125
RTE Hours per week 5 20 63 10.695
Verbal Listening Score with 5.633 8.943 10 0.954
working Operation partial credit 1.852 10.588 15 3.435
memory span Reading 2.367 6.749 10 1.757
Inhibitory control Anti. Acc. Proportion correct responses (all conflict trials) 0.264 0.717 0.986 0.192
Anti. RT Log median reaction time for correct responses (all conflict trials) −2.043 −0.559 0.270 0.328
Flanker Difference in log −0.254 0.151 0.344 0.069
Stroop median reaction time of correct responses for conflict and no-conflict trials −0.153 0.193 0.514 0.135
Phonological ability Pseudo. Rep. Proportion correct 0.487 0.801 0.949 0.077
BNW 0.167 0.646 1 0.176
PR 0.182 0.687 1 0.176
Perceptual Letter Number correct 41 73 405 34.305
speed Pattern within time limit 46 84 398 31.378

Notes: Min. and Max. refer to the observed minimum and maximum scores, respectively. ART = Author Recognition Test (Stanovich & West, 1989; Acheson et al., 2008); ERVT = Extended Range Vocabulary Test (Ekstrom et al., 1976); CRH = Comparative Reading Habits (Acheson et al., 2008); NAART = North American Adult Reading Test (Blair & Spreen, 1989); RTE = Reading Time Estimate (Acheson et al., 2008); “Listening” = Listening Span task (Daneman & Carpenter, 1986; Stine & Hindman, 1994; Unsworth et al., 2005); “Operation” = Operation Span task (Turner & Engle, 1989; Unsworth et al., 2005); “Reading” = Reading Span task (Daneman & Carpenter, 1986; Stine & Hindman, 1994; Unsworth et al., 2005); “Anti.Acc” and “Anti.RT” refer to accuracy and median reaction time on the Antisaccade Task (Kane et al., 2001), respectively; “Flanker” = Flanker task (Eriksen & Eriksen, 1974); ; “Stroop” = Stroop task (Stroop, 1935; Brown-Schmidt, 2009); “Pseudo.Rep” = Pseudoword Repetition (Gupta, 2003); BNW = Blending Nonwords (Wagner et al., 1999); PR = Phoneme Reversal (Wagner et al., 1999); “Letter” = Letter Comparison (Salthouse & Babcock, 1991); “Pattern” = Pattern Comparison (Salthouse & Babcock, 1991).