Research Article

Healthy Aging and Compensation of Sentence Comprehension Auditory Deficits

Table 4

Performance of groups on the RTT as measured by execution time.

SubtestGroup 1
mean (SD)
Group 2
mean (SD)
Group 3
mean (SD)
valueMultiple comparisons (<0.05)

13.7 (2.1)6.4 (4.2)7.5 (4.6)0.057ns
25.1 (2.2)7.0 (3.3)9.2 (6.1)0.006G1 × G3
G2 × G3
36.4 (3.5)9.4 (7.5)11.2 (7.9)0.047G1 × G3
49.7 (4.9)11.7 (8.1)14.1 (6.6)0.048G1 × G3
523.1 (7.7)28.5 (10.6)31.3 (11.1)0.017G1 × G2
G1 × G3
626.2 (7.0)30.8 (10.2)37.5 (13.9)0.002G1 × G3
G2 × G3
720.3 (7.0)24.0 (10.3)26.9 (8.0)0.034G1 × G3
818.4 (8.0)33.4 (11.5)33.7 (9.7)0.018G1 × G2
G1 × G3
915.6 (8.5)22.1 (10.0)24.7 (9.2)0.003G1 × G2
G1 × G3
1018.8 (10.1)23.2 (8.5)25.4 (8.4)0.047G1 × G3

Total148.7 (37.4)190.1 (52.1)211.9 (55.4)0.002G1 × G2
G1 × G3

SD = standard deviation.
Statistically significant difference.