Letter and Colour Matching Tasks: Parametric Measures of Developmental Working Memory Capacity

Table 2

Pair sample -tests of WM scores across grade and WM capacity task.

test	Age group (years)	CMT-Simple		CMT-Complex
Visuospatial	7-8	2.43	≠	2.83
	9-10	4.92	≠	4.12
	11-12	5.38	=	4.86
	13-14	6.05	=	5.50
	15-16	6.64	=	6.80
	18+	6.88	=	7.19
		LMT-Simple		LMT-Complex
Verbal	7-8	2.36	=	2.77
	9-10	3.16	=	3.24
	11-12	4.86	=	4.67
	13-14	4.73	≠	5.32
	15-16	5.96	≠	6.48
	18+	6.31	=	6.73
		CMT-Simple		LMT-Simple
Simple	7-8	2.50	=	2.36
	9-10	4.92	≠	3.16
	11-12	5.38	=	4.86
	13-14	6.05	≠	4.73
	15-16	6.64	≠	5.96
	18+	6.88	≠	6.31
		CMT-Complex		LMT-Complex
Complex	7-8	2.86	=	2.77
	9-10	4.12	≠	3.24
	11-12	4.86	=	4.67
	13-14	5.50	=	5.32
	15-16	6.80	=	6.48
	18+	7.19	=	6.73

Note. = 0.05. Equivalence tests were computed using paired sample -tests and pairwise exclusions; =: equivalent; ≠: not equivalent.