TABLE 3.
Correlations between neuropsychological measures at T0 and ΔT1, ΔT2, ΔT3 NW reading speed, controlling for age, in the active and sham tDCS conditions.
| Neuropsychological measures at T0 | |||||||
| NW speed |
Working-memoryEff |
Phoneme blending |
RAN |
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| Visual-spatial | Verbal | Accuracya | Timeb | Lettersb | Colorsb | ||
| (Rho) | (Rho) | (Rho) | (Rho) | (Rho) | (Rho) | ||
| ΔT1 | Active tDCS | –0.22 | −0.57** | –0.10 | 0.46* | 0.10 | –0.08 |
| ΔT2 | –0.02 | −0.62**∧ | –0.18 | 0.38 | –0.05 | –0.02 | |
| ΔT3 | –0.15 | −0.55** | –0.15 | 0.43* | –0.13 | –0.40 | |
| ΔT1 | Sham tDCS | 0.19 | –0.13 | 0.03 | 0.21 | 0.08 | 0.07 |
| ΔT2 | –0.06 | –0.24 | –0.17 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.33 | |
| ΔT3 | 0.36 | 0.20 | –0.07 | –0.02 | –0.20 | –0.21 | |
aNumber of phonemes. bSeconds. RAN, rapid automatized naming; NW, non-words; ΔT1, changes at T1; ΔT2, changes at T2; ΔT3, changes at T3.
*p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ∧significant after Bonferroni’s correction (p ≤ 0.0028).