Table 2 Descriptive Statistics for Cognitive Measures by Age Group (N = 283).

From: Neurocognitive aging data release with behavioral, structural and multi-echo functional MRI measures

Measure

Younger Adults

Older Adults

F

p (uncorrected)

ηp2

Mean

SD

Range

Mean

SD

Range

Episodic Memory

Verbal Paired Associates: Immediate Recall

43.24

8.11

14.00–55.00

30.52

8.88

11.00–53.00

125.82

<0.001

0.31

Verbal Paired Associates: Delayed Recall

12.99

1.53

7.00–14.00

9.26

2.68

3.00–14.00

192.32

<0.001

0.41

Verbal Paired Associates: Delayed Free Recall

21.14

3.74

9.00–28.00

15.38

4.55

6.00–26.00

109.73

<0.001

0.28

Associative Recall

178.41

42.13

34.00–238.00

110.31

50.89

9.00–219.00

117.13

<0.001

0.30

NIH Cognition Rey Auditory Verbal Learning: Immediate Recall

31.97

5.09

17.00–45.00

23.97

5.11

10.00–34.00

130.65

<0.001

0.33

NIH Cognition Picture Sequence Memory

118.79

13.83

83.66–135.55

98.43

11.22

76.42–135.55

128.19

<0.001

0.32

Semantic Memory

Shipley Vocabulary

32.96

3.77

19.00–39.00

36.11

2.62

27.00–40.00

52.06

<0.001

0.16

NIH Cognition Picture Vocabulary

120.70

10.00

89.44–145.27

134.30

10.10

108.54–153.07

103.64

<0.001

0.28

NIH Cognition Oral Reading Recognition

127.37

10.19

104.89–150.71

132.57

11.24

97.48–150.71

1.69

0.195

0.01

Executive Function

Trail Making Task: B-A

2818.80

1863.82

−422.00–11865.00

3750.69

2640.61

−109.00–15972.00

13.01

<0.001

0.04

NIH Cognition Flanker Inhibitory Control and Attention

106.63

13.95

85.09–142.11

94.12

6.23

82.86–121.18

77.06

<0.001

0.22

NIH Cognition Dimensional Change Card Sort

114.48

10.41

95.40–143.94

99.73

8.22

86.21–123.75

126.08

<0.001

0.32

NIH Cognition List Sort Working Memory

117.85

11.44

93.90–144.50

106.67

9.10

88.68–130.38

56.06

<0.001

0.17

Processing Speed

Symbol Digits Modality

76.02

12.14

36.00–111.00

56.95

7.92

34.00–75.00

155.08

<0.005

0.36

  1. Note. NIH Cognition scores are unadjusted. One-way ANCOVAs were conducted on each measure to test for age group differences with site, gender, and education as covariates.