Neural Plasticity / 2019 / Article / Tab 2 / Research Article
The Modulatory Effect of Cerebrovascular Burden in Response to Cognitive Stimulation in Healthy Ageing and Mild Cognitive Impairment Table 2 Baseline neuropsychological differences between the healthy ageing and MCI groups.
Mean (SD) differenceHealthy ageing MCI Raven’s progressive matrices [22 , 23 ] 30.36 (4.66) 25.59 (6.71) Phonemic fluency [24 ] 32.76 (13.09) 28.27 (10.87) Semantic fluency [24 ] 43.16 (10.91) 28.55 (8.25) Digit cancellation [25 ] 54.04 (4.98) 45.00 (9.91) Similarities [26 ] 20.56 (4.36) 19.09 (4.62) Token task [25 ] 34.77 (1.78) 33.21 (2.54) Rey figure—copy [27 –29 ] 32.28 (3.92) 27.96 (6.92) Rey figure—memory [27 –29 ] 16.38 (6.10) 7.82 (4.88) Stroop—time interference [30 , 31 ] 19.14 (7.01) 43.59 (29.60) Stroop—error interference [30 , 31 ] 0.62 (1.20) 4.00 (6.66) Digit span—forwards [32 ] 6.12 (0.88) 5.45 (0.67) Digit span—backwards [32 ] 4.28 (1.10) 3.64 (0.73) Corsi span [32 ] 4.84 (0.90) 4.23 (0.61) Prose—immediate memory [33 ] 8.76 (2.89) 6.05 (3.14) Prose—delayed memory [33 ] 11.80 (4.35) 6.91 (4.29) Paired associate learning [33 ] 12.92 (3.32) 8.71 (2.94) Naming task [34 ] 19.76 (0.66) 18.05 (1.73)
Means and standard deviations are indicated. Group differences were calculated with independent-sample
-tests . Note:
means significant when corrected for multiple comparisons (
).