Table 1.
PD | NC | Comparison | |
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Age (in years) | 61.50 ± 8.96 | 59.50 ± 5.62 | t(78) = 1.25, P = 0.22 |
Education (in years) | 10.67 ± 3.27 | 11.57 ± 3.35 | t(78) = 1.21, P = 0.22 |
Handedness | 71.43 ± 4.40 | 70.01 ± 3.85 | t(78) = 0.40, P = 0.71 |
MMSE | 27.50 ± 1.1 | 27.62 ± 1.03 | t(78) = 0.52, P = 0.60 |
Note. Means are presented, together with standard deviations. Education reflects years of schooling starting from first grade. Handedness reflects laterality quotients from the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (Oldfield, 1971), where 100 represents strongly right-handed and −100 represents strongly left-handed. Comparisons reflect results from independent-samples t-tests. PD: patients with Parkinson’s disease; NC: normal controls; MMSE: Mini–Mental State Examination.