Table 1 Comparisons of ILFT and CLFT outcomes.

From: Effects of the combined letter fluency task on frontal cortex regional and dynamic oxygenation patterns

A. Direct comparisons

ILFT

mean (SD)

CLFT

mean (SD)

ta/W

p-value

Number of correct words

67.92 (22.93)

40.71 (11.45)

8.939

< 0.0001

Number of correct words in 0–15 s interval

24.37 (7.84)

13.50 (4.03)

7.407

< 0.0001

Perseverative errors

0.79 (1.03)

0.39 (0.85)

3.073b

0.045

Eliminated letter errors

-

2.35 (2.84)

-

-

Other errors

0.94 (1.32)

0.55 (0.82)

1.626 b

0.113

Errors total

1.73 (1.71)

3.29 (3.01)

3.223 b

0.002

Phonemic switches

39.77 (13.79)

25.37 (10.66)

5.180

< 0.0001

Semantic switches

45.68 (15.13)

30.94 (12.18)

4.928

< 0.0001

Phonemic clusters

15.70 (8.63)

10.26 (5.25)

4.494

< 0.0001

Semantic clusters

30.44 (17.89)

16.64 (9.82)

5.942

< 0.0001

B. Normalized variables comparisonsb

ILFT

mean (SD)

CLFT

mean (SD)

ta/W

p-value

% Perseverative errors

0.01 (0.01)

0.01 (0.02)

0.456 b

0.651

% Eliminated letter errors

-

0.06 (0.07)

-

-

% Other errors

0.01 (0.02)

0.01 (0.01)

0.478b

0.635

% errors total

0.02 (0.02)

0.09 (0.08)

4.545 b

< 0.001

% Phonemic switches

0.63 (0.14)

0.61 (0.21)

0.441

0.661

% Semantic switches

0.73 (0.18)

0.75 (0.22)

0.528

0.601

% Phonemic clusters

0.22 (0.06)

0.24 (0.08)

1.536

0.134

% Semantic clusters

0.43 (0.11)

0.39 (0.16)

1.424

0.164

  1. Note. at-test, W – Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks test, b – results of Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks test.
  2. b – value normalized by dividing by the sum of correct words produced in a given task.