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. 2020 Jul 10;41(15):4397–4405. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25132

TABLE 1.

Correlation of sleep quality, sleep duration and fractional anisotropy with cognitive subscores

Sleep quality Sleep duration Fractional anisotropy
NIH total cognition score
Pearson's r .002 .097 *** .089 **
p‐value .938 <.001 .004
df 1,183 1,183 1,046
Flanker inhibitory control and attention test: Executive function
Pearson's r .005 .015 .010
p‐value .863 .597 .754
df 1,183 1,183 1,046
Picture sequence memory: (nonverbal) episodic memory
Pearson's r −.007 .052 .064 *
p‐value .813 .073 .038
df 1,183 1,183 1,046
List sorting working memory test
Pearson's r .028 .041 .088 **
p‐value .330 .162 .005
df 1,183 1,183 1,046
Picture vocabulary test: Vocabulary knowledge
Pearson's r −.005 .116 *** .038
p‐value .853 <.001 .214
df 1,183 1,183 1,046
Oral reading recognition test: Reading decoding skills
Pearson's r −.014 .135 *** .060
p‐value .640 <.001 .053
df 1,183 1,183 1,046
Dimensional change card sort test: Executive function and cognitive flexibility
Pearson's r .018 .049 .055
p‐value .539 .092 .073
df 1,183 1,183 1,046
Pattern comparison processing speed test
Pearson's r −.001 −.003 .055
p‐value .967 .904 .077
df 1,183 1,183 1,046

Note: Sleep duration: Hours of actual sleep at night; Sleep quality: Overall rating of subjective sleep quality on a 0–3 scale; SLF: superior longitudinal fasciculus; FA: fractional anisotropy, mean value extracted from the FA‐global cognition association results mask; Pearson's r = Pearson correlation coefficient; p‐value = value determining statistical significance, *** p < .001; ** p < .01; * p < .05, values < .05 in bold font; df = degrees of freedom; for more information on the cognitive subscores see Supplementary Material S2.