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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2021 May 15;127:675–688. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.05.010

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.