Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Table 1 Demographic details of the present sample and descriptive statistics of the WISC-V standardized subtests

From: Scaling up = scaling down? Children’s spatial scaling in different perceptual modalities and scaling directions

	6 years (n = 59)	7 years (n = 82)	8 years (n = 60)
	N (%)/M (SD)	N (%)/M (SD)	N (%)/M (SD)
Age in years	6.57 (0.28)	7.53 (0.27)	8.33 (0.28)
Female	32 (54.2%)	37 (45.1%)	20 (33.3%)
Right-handed^a	48 (81.4%)	75 (91.5%)	49 (81.7%)
Maternal education^b
No school degree	0 (0%)	1 (1.3%)	0 (0%)
Mandatory school	1 (1.8%)	2 (2.5%)	2 (3.6%)
Apprenticeship	5 (9.1%)	9 (11.4%)	3 (5.4%)
High school	1 (1.8%)	5 (6.3%)	3 (5.4%)
Higher education	3 (5.5%)	6 (7.6%)	6 (10.7%)
University /college	45 (81.8%)	56 (70.9%)	42 (75%)
WISC-V vocabulary^c	11.76 (3.41)	12.04 (3.09)	11.62 (3.04)
WISC-V matrices^c	11.02 (2.43)	10.54 (2.44)	11.43 (2.61)

^aNo data were available for n = 10 children
^bNo data were available for n = 11 mothers
^cRefer to age-standardized scores with M = 10, SD = 3

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