Table 12.
Examination of age group differences in the average Pearson correlation for sleep-memory associations by episodic memory task measure with the 95% confidence interval
| Young | Old | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Measure | r | LL | UL | k | j | p | r | LL | UL | k | j | p |
| Recall | 0.18 | 0.06 | 0.30 | 23 | 180 | .003 | 0.12 | −0.01 | 0.25 | 14 | 111 | .073 |
| Recognition | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.29 | 24 | 277 | <.001 | 0.24 | 0.10 | 0.37 | 8 | 48 | <.001 |
| Associative | 0.24 | 0.14 | 0.34 | 32 | 292 | <.001 | 0.21 | 0.09 | 0.33 | 14 | 97 | <.001 |
| Non-Associative | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.20 | 16 | 165 | 0.02 | 0.10 | −0.03 | 0.22 | 7 | 62 | 0.13 |
| Associative Recall | 0.24 | 0.07 | 0.39 | 17 | 127 | .005 | 0.17 | −0.01 | 0.34 | 8 | 74 | 0.069 |
| Associative Recognition |
0.22 | 0.09 | 0.34 | 15 | 165 | .001 | 0.31 | 0.12 | 0.48 | 6 | 23 | .002 |
| Non-Associative Recognition |
0.16 | 0.03 | 0.29 | 11 | 112 | .02 | 0.16 | −0.03 | 0.34 | 2 | 25 | 0.11 |
| Verbal | 0.16 | −0.03 | 0.34 | 19 | 201 | <.001 | 0.01 | −0.21 | 0.23 | 16 | 132 | <.001 |
| Pictorial | 0.18 | 0.06 | 0.31 | 20 | 226 | .004 | 0.01 | −0.21 | 0.23 | 3 | 17 | 0.91 |
| Spatial | 0.11 | −0.25 | 0.45 | 6 | 36 | .55 | −0.11 | −0.50 | 0.32 | 2 | 14 | 0.63 |
| Non-Spatial | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 40 | 421 | <.001 | 0.21 | 0.12 | 0.29 | 19 | 145 | <.001 |
| Immediate | 0.18 | 0.08 | 0.28 | 12 | 62 | .04 | 0.02 | −0.07 | 0.10 | 4 | 30 | .51 |
| Delayed | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 43 | 380 | <.001 | 0.18 | 0.08 | 0.28 | 19 | 128 | <.001 |
NOTE: LL = lower confidence interval; UL = upper confidence interval; k = the number of studies; j = the number of effect sizes.