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. 2019 Mar 20;11:58. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00058

Table 1.

Participant characteristics: shown here are the means of demographic, inclusion, and neuropsychological measures across experimental groups.

Active wake group Sleep group Age effects Interval type effects Interaction





Younger adults Older adults Younger adults Older adults F(1,71) F(1,71) F(1,71)
Demographic measures
Participants (M/F) 18 (5/13) 20 (10/10) 18 (10/8) 20 (7/13)
Age (yrs) 23 (4.85) 70.30 (7.89) 22.05 (3.03) 69.20 (5.45) 1319.02 0.62 0.004
p = 0.00 p = 0.43 p = 0.95
η2 = 0.95 η2 = 0.00 η2 = 0.00
Education 6.78 (0.55) 6.20 (1.10) 6.78 (0.73) 5.30 (1.66) 16.08 3.08 3.08
p = 0.00 p = 0.08 p = 0.08
η2 = 0.18 η2 = 0.04 η2 = 0.04
Inclusion test
Mill Hill 31.94 (4.77) 38.05 (4.20) 32.11 (5.93) 35.85 (6.15) 16.62 0.7 0.937
p = 0.00 p = 0.41 p = 0.34
η2 = 0.18 η2 = 0.00 η2 = 0.02
BDI 3.33 (3.5) 2.10 (2.45) 4.2 (2.07) 3.70 (2.68) 1.9 3.75 0.25
p = 0.17 p = 0.06 p = 0.62
η2 = 0.02 η2 = 0.05 η2 = 0.00
MMSE 29.10 (1.02) 29.85 (0.98) 0.65
p = 0.43
Neuropsychological measures
Session 1
TMT (s) 33.44 (18.08) 62.15 (28.68) 31.17 (16.78) 68.05 (56.64) 16.88 0.05 0.26
p = 0.00 p = 0.82 p = 0.61
η2 = 0.19 η2 = 0.00 η2 = 0.00
Digit span 16.61 (4.03) 13.90 (3.16) 15.83 (2.57) 13.30 (3.48) 11.6 0.80 0.01
p = 0.001 p = 0.38 p = 0.9
η2 = 0.14 η2 = 0.01 η2 = 0.00
Session 2
Family picture test (standard EM test) 33.25 (7.93) 32.25 (7.00) 0.17
p = 0.68
η2 = 0.00
What-Where-When span 9.33 (2.20) 5.75 (1.55) 9.50 (2.43) 5.95 (2.78) 46.25 0.12 0.00
p = 0.00 p = 0.73 p = 0.97
η2 = 0.39 η2 = 0.00 η2 = 0.00
FAB 17.20 (0.70) 16.70 (1.26) 2.41
p = 0.13

Values in parentheses represent standard deviations; p-values in bold represent significance.

Scale from 1 to 7 (no schooling to graduate studies completed).