Table 6 Attention: Hedge’s g effect sizes for each test, in descending order.

Auditive input

Paced auditory serial addition test (4 s)

3

84

62

− 0.75

0.17

− 1.086 to − 0.409

0.0001

2.35

0.31

15.07

Constant et al.¹⁸, Lawrie et al.³¹, Michiels et al.⁴¹

Paced auditory serial addition test (Total corrects)

9

261

239

− 0.46

0.09

− 0.634 to − 0.282

0.0001

4.89

0.77

0.00

Cockshell et al.¹⁷, Cockshell et al. (2014), Claypoole et al.¹⁵, DeLuca et al.²⁰, DeLuca et al.²¹, DeLuca et al.²², Marshall et al.³⁵, Schmalin et al.⁶¹, Tiersky et al.⁵²

Paced auditory serial addition test (2 s)

2

53

38

− 0.37

0.22

− 0.788 to 0.052

0.086

1.04

0.31

3.92

Lawrie et al.³¹, Short et al.⁴⁹

Visual input

Continuous performance test (number no distraction)

2

47

32

− 0.50

0.23

− 0.957 to − 0.046

0.031

0.01

0.94

0.00

Marshall et al.^35,36

Continuous performance test (number distraction)

2

47

32

− 0.48

0.23

− 0.933 to − 0.022

0.04

0.56

0.46

0.00

Marshall et al.^35,36

Continuous performance test (shapes distraction)

2

47

32

− 0.45

0.23

− 0.906 to 0.007

0.05

2.13

0.14

53.01

Marshall et al.^35,36

Rapid visual information processing (A')

2

101

157

− 0.28

0.13

− 0.531 to − 0.030

0.028

0.00

0.99

0.00

Capuron et al.¹³, Majer et al.³³

Continuous performance test [reaction time (ms)]

2

47

43

0.26

0.21

− 0.145 to 0.672

0.206

0.00

1.00

0.00

Fiedler et al.²⁴, Marcel et al.³⁴

Continuous performance test (shapes no distraction)

2

47

32

− 0.21

0.23

− 0.662 to 0.241

0.361

1.03

0.31

2.60

Marshall et al.^35,36

Other

Mental contol

2

49

42

− 0.40

0.21

− 0.813 to 0.006

0.05

0.07

0.79

0.00

Grafman et al.²⁵, Marcel et al.³⁴