Table 3. Testing the effect of age group, gender, and interaction between the two on the test metrics using one and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Test | Variables | (1) | (2) | (3) | |||||||
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Age group | Gender | Age group | Gender | Age×Gender | |||||||
F-stat | p-value | F-stat | p-value | F-stat | p-value | F-stat | p-value | F-stat | p-value | ||
Saccade–Random, Horizontal | Latency (s) | 0.512 | 0.475 | 2.198 | 0.139 | 1.699 | 0.193 | 1.903 | 0.168 | 2.763 | 0.097 |
Accuracy (%) | 1.691 | 0.194 | 1.485 | 0.224 | 1.299 | 0.255 | 1.273 | 0.260 | 0.007 | 0.933 | |
Final accuracy (%) | 1.211 | 0.272 | 0.160 | 0.689 | 0.305 | 0.581 | 0.025 | 0.875 | 2.287 | 0.131 | |
AUF (deg2/s) | 1.626 | 0.203 | 0.020 | 0.888 | 1.322 | 0.251 | 0.002 | 0.967 | 0.033 | 0.856 | |
Peak velocity (25–30°/s) | 0.001 | 0.970 | 2.871 | 0.093 | 0.001 | 0.982 | 2.318 | 0.131 | 0.028 | 0.868 | |
Saccade–Random, Vertical | Latency (s) | 8.416 | 0.004 | 0.000 | 0.986 | 12.430 | 0.000 | 0.003 | 0.958 | 5.773 | 0.017 |
Accuracy (%) | 0.037 | 0.847 | 0.905 | 0.342 | 0.048 | 0.827 | 0.940 | 0.333 | 0.008 | 0.928 | |
Final accuracy (%) | 0.356 | 0.551 | 0.299 | 0.585 | 0.376 | 0.540 | 0.511 | 0.475 | 0.029 | 0.866 | |
AUF (deg2/s) | 12.198 | 0.001 | 1.884 | 0.171 | 11.755 | 0.001 | 1.456 | 0.228 | 0.381 | 0.538 | |
Peak velocity (25-30deg/s) | 0.002 | 0.967 | 0.491 | 0.485 | 0.070 | 0.792 | 0.000 | 0.993 | 1.112 | 0.294 | |
Smooth Pursuit–Horizontal 0.1Hz | Velocity gain | 0.078 | 0.779 | 0.888 | 0.346 | 0.064 | 0.801 | 0.962 | 0.327 | 0.062 | 0.804 |
Asymmetry (%) | 2.059 | 0.152 | 0.484 | 0.487 | 2.007 | 0.157 | 0.603 | 0.438 | 0.001 | 0.974 | |
Position gain | 4.351 | 0.038 | 0.518 | 0.472 | 3.495 | 0.062 | 0.882 | 0.348 | 0.350 | 0.555 | |
Saccadic component (%) | 0.010 | 0.921 | 2.055 | 0.152 | 0.058 | 0.811 | 2.509 | 0.114 | 2.070 | 0.151 | |
Smooth Pursuit–Horizontal 0.75 Hz | Velocity gain | 0.016 | 0.898 | 5.980 | 0.015 | 0.041 | 0.840 | 6.337 | 0.012 | 0.695 | 0.405 |
Asymmetry (%) | 0.143 | 0.706 | 0.710 | 0.400 | 0.391 | 0.532 | 0.830 | 0.363 | 1.113 | 0.292 | |
Position gain | 13.658 | 0.000 | 2.349 | 0.126 | 14.923 | 0.000 | 2.729 | 0.099 | 0.671 | 0.413 | |
Saccadic component (%) | 2.878 | 0.090 | 0.847 | 0.358 | 1.414 | 0.235 | 0.464 | 0.496 | 1.312 | 0.253 | |
Smooth Pursuit–Vertical 0.1 Hz | Velocity gain | 2.122 | 0.146 | 0.009 | 0.924 | 1.506 | 0.220 | 0.035 | 0.853 | 0.003 | 0.958 |
Asymmetry (%) | 1.871 | 0.172 | 1.567 | 0.211 | 1.757 | 0.186 | 2.164 | 0.142 | 0.061 | 0.805 | |
Position gain | 16.354 | 0.000 | 0.086 | 0.770 | 14.096 | 0.000 | 0.270 | 0.604 | 0.057 | 0.811 | |
Saccadic component (%) | 4.032 | 0.045 | 3.654 | 0.057 | 3.250 | 0.072 | 3.133 | 0.077 | 0.002 | 0.964 | |
Smooth Pursuit–Vertical 0.75 Hz | Velocity gain | 0.500 | 0.480 | 3.727 | 0.054 | 0.179 | 0.672 | 3.313 | 0.069 | 0.218 | 0.641 |
Asymmetry (%) | 6.709 | 0.010 | 2.177 | 0.141 | 3.775 | 0.053 | 1.411 | 0.236 | 1.727 | 0.190 | |
Position gain | 4.317 | 0.038 | 0.000 | 0.983 | 6.335 | 0.012 | 0.000 | 0.990 | 2.995 | 0.084 | |
Saccadic component (%) | 5.479 | 0.020 | 11.492 | 0.001 | 3.486 | 0.063 | 10.010 | 0.002 | 0.349 | 0.555 | |
Predictive Saccades | Percentage predicted (%) | 35.909 | 0.000 | 0.043 | 0.835 | 28.757 | 0.000 | 0.057 | 0.812 | 1.515 | 0.219 |
Antisaccades | Error rate (%) | 4.780 | 0.029 | 2.799 | 0.095 | 0.060 | 0.806 | 2.281 | 0.132 | 3.649 | 0.057 |
Visual Reaction Time | Latency (ms) | 0.834 | 0.362 | 12.277 | 0.001 | 2.041 | 0.154 | 0.080 | 0.778 | 3.168 | 0.076 |
Auditory Reaction Time | Latency (ms) | 0.018 | 0.894 | 29.000 | 0.000 | 0.815 | 0.367 | 27.972 | 0.000 | 0.593 | 0.442 |
Saccade and Reaction Time–Saccade metrics: | Latency (ms) | 0.547 | 0.460 | 0.406 | 0.524 | 0.550 | 0.459 | 0.370 | 0.543 | 0.067 | 0.795 |
Accuracy (%) | 0.822 | 0.365 | 1.623 | 0.203 | 0.371 | 0.543 | 1.317 | 0.252 | 0.348 | 0.556 | |
Final accuracy (%) | 0.008 | 0.927 | 1.696 | 0.193 | 0.007 | 0.935 | 1.765 | 0.185 | 0.071 | 0.790 | |
Saccade and Reaction Time–Motor response: | Latency mean (s), Left | 0.020 | 0.887 | 0.190 | 0.664 | 0.019 | 0.892 | 0.103 | 0.749 | 0.004 | 0.949 |
Latency mean (s), Right | 0.007 | 0.932 | 0.060 | 0.807 | 0.000 | 0.995 | 0.087 | 0.768 | 0.030 | 0.864 |
The t-test-based results examining the effect of age and gender are not reported here. However, these results are consistent with those of one-way ANOVA.