Memory Functioning in Children with Epilepsy: Frontal Lobe Epilepsy, Childhood Absence Epilepsy, and Benign Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes

Table 3

Memory tests: linear regression analysis.

Dependent variables	Independent variables included in the model
	FLE versus CAE		FLE versus BECTS		CAE versus BECTS		Age at onset		Active duration		Frequency of seizures		Treatment		𝑟^2 (for the full model)	𝐹
	𝛽	𝑃	𝛽	𝑃	𝛽	𝑃	𝛽	𝑃	𝛽	𝑃	𝛽	𝑃	𝛽	𝑃
List L	1.720	0.042	2.042	0.021	0.322	0.707	−0.100	0.481	−0.028	0.055	0.041	0.936	0.159	0.836	0.125	1.972
List IR	1.389	0.096	0.245	0.776	−1.145	0.178	−0.038	0.788	−0.015	0.291	−0.530	0.296	−0.494	0.517	0.086	1.309
List DR	1.012	0.189	0.442	0.579	−0.570	0.468	−0.088	0.496	−0.016	0.233	−0.057	0.903	−0.132	0.852	0.047	0.678
List R	0.903	0.359	−0.345	0.736	−1.248	0.216	0.068	0.681	−0.021	0.225	−0.125	0.835	−0.296	0.743	0.057	0.832
Rey IR	0.667	0.448	0.778	0.395	0.110	0.902	0.152	0.309	0.000	0.980	0.069	0.898	0.865	0.286	0.037	0.538
Rey DR	0.071	0.936	0.103	0.910	0.033	0.971	0.232	0.121	−0.003	0.840	0.059	0.912	0.703	0.386	0.046	0.663
Corsi	1.407	0.090	1.261	0.142	−0.146	0.863	0.435	0.002	0.020	0.170	−0.718	0.156	0.059	0.938	0.157	2.584

LIST L, list learning-learning; LIST IR, list learning immediate recall; LIST DR, list learning-delayed recall; LIST R, list learning-recognition; Rey IR, rey complex figure test-immediate recall; Rey DR, rey complex figure test-delayed recall; Corsi Corsi block tapping test.