Table 6 Summary of performance measures for ASD participants and controls on the four- and two-choice reversal learning tasks
 | ASD Group | Controls | F(1,38) | P-value |
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Four- choice task | ||||
 Number of reversals | 23.7 (1.7), 20–26 | 24.3 (1.8), 19–26 | 1.36 | 0.25 |
 Perseverative errors | 1.1 (1.7), 0–6 | 0.5 (1.3), 0–5 | 1.58 | 0.22 |
 Failures to maintain set | 4.7 (5.3), 0–17 | 3.0 (5.1), 0–22 | 0.99 | 0.33 |
Two-choice task | ||||
 Number of reversals | 27.8 (4.6), 13–33 | 30.0 (3.7), 21–33 | 2.45 | 0.12 |
 Perseverative errors | 7.1 (9.0), 0–38 | 3.2 (4.6), 0–17 | 3.27 | 0.08 |
 Failures to maintain set | 7.8 (9.0), 0–40 | 4.4 (6.1), 0–24 | 1.98 | 0.17 |