Research Article
Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease
Table 4
Neuropsychological performance measures (median and interquartile range) obtained for the healthy control subjects compared to the PD patients.
| Neuropsychological tests | PD patients | HC subjects | PD HC | Median | IR | Median | IR | | |
| Sustained visual attention | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −3.055 | .002** | Sustained auditory attention | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −.747 | .455 | Digit span backward | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | −.803 | .422 | Set switching (TMT A & B; OMO test) | −.01 | 1.19 | −.35 | .64 | −2.518 | .012* | Interference index Stroop | 1.61 | .43 | 1.54 | .45 | −.977 | .329 | Sequencing Complex (max = 20) | 19 | 2 | 19 | 2 | −.782 | .434 |
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Statistical significance is indicated as follows: *, **. HC: healthy control.
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