Table 1 Means (M) and standard errors (SE) for the number of correct responses per group (programmers, non-programmers), reasoning task (FIR, NIR, VDR), and complexity level (low, medium, high).

From: Programming experience associated with neural efficiency during figural reasoning

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Programmers

Non-programmers

N

M

SE

N

M

SE

FIR

Low

20

5.65c, d

0.18

20

5.40 e, f

0.23

Medium

20

4.80a, c

0.28

20

2.95a, e

0.31

High

20

4.10b, d

0.36

20

2.60b, f

0.38

NIR

Low

20

6.20

0.25

21

6.00

0.23

Medium

20

4.95

0.27

21

4.24

0.41

High

20

3.10

0.27

21

2.48

0.35

VDR

Low

20

5.15

0.18

21

4.76

0.22

Medium

20

5.75

0.22

21

5.48

0.25

High

20

4.30

0.36

21

3.52

0.34

  1. FIR figural inductive reasoning, NIR numerical inductive reasoning, VDR verbal deductive reasoning. low low complexity, medium medium complexity, high high complexity. Superscripted letters indicate significant differences revealed by the post-hoc tests for the interaction effect Complexity*Group.