TABLE 1.

Demographic and clinical data of the stroke patients and the normal controls

Variable	Stroke patients	Normal controls	p
Number	60	60	—
Age (y)	55.1 ± 8.6	55.4 ± 8.2	0.837
Sex (M—F)	44—16	34—26	0.056
Education (no. of years)	10.0 ± 3.4	11.0 ± 2.9	0.107
Verbal short‐term memory	43.9 ± 9.3	48.7 ± 8.2	0.003*
Fugl–Meyer Assessment score
Upper extremity	65.4 ± 1.4	—	—
Whole extremity	98.8 ± 2.6	—	—

^*The bold values indicate significant differences between the stroke and normal control groups (p < .05); Data are presented by the mean ± the standard deviation (range) for the continuous data.