Table 2.
Rate of RCAs for older adults on the referential communication task.
| Version of the task without fillers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monochrome-Polychrome | Polychrome-Monochrome | |||||
| Mean | SD | Range | Mean | SD | Range | |
| Block One | 0.136 | 0.344 | 0–1 | 0.436 | 0.497 | 0–1 |
| Block Two | 0.196 | 0.398 | 0–1 | 0.323 | 0.469 | 0–1 |
| Version of the task with fillers | ||||||
| Monochrome-Polychrome | Polychrome-Monochrome | |||||
| Mean | SD | Range | Mean | SD | Range | |
| Block One | 0.188 | 0.391 | 0–1 | 0.345 | 0.476 | 0–1 |
| Block Two | 0.223 | 0.417 | 0–1 | 0.402 | 0.491 | 0–1 |
Notes: In the above tables, we divided our sample (n = 200) based on the median age such that younger adults were between the ages of 19–48 and older adults were between the ages of 50–82.