Research Article
Inhibition Plasticity in Older Adults: Practice and Transfer Effects Using a Multiple Task Approach
Table 1
Demographic characteristics and baseline cognitive performance assessed at pretest separately for the practice group and control group.
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Note. Standard deviations are in parentheses. CES-D = Centre for Epidemiological Studies of Depression Scale. Education was indexed by the average number of years of formal education. Health was indexed by a self-reported score out of 10. Visual acuity was indexed by the near-visual acuity score from the Rosenbaum Visual Acuity Pocket Screener (score 20/—). Shipley Vocabulary Test was scored by the average number of correct solutions. Average scores were displayed for Beck’s Anxiety Inventory, CES-D, and Short Blessed Test. ; value from the independent -test (practice versus control); d = Cohen’s d effect size calculated for between-subjects comparison. |