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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of individual measure performance

From: How do we measure attention? Using factor analysis to establish construct validity of neuropsychological tests

 

Outcome

Mean

SD

Min

P50

Max

Skewness

Kurtosis

Internal Reliability

Traditional Clinical neuropsychological tests

         

Letter cancellation

Num. correct

92.247

21.809

8

91

152

0.010

3.108

0.95

Digit symbol coding

n. correct trials

55.047

13.693

16

54

116

0.861

5.371

0.93

Backward digit span

Length of longest sequence

6.102

2.031

1

6

11

0.385

2.747

0.68

Forward digit Span

Length of longest sequence

6.929

1.665

1

7

11

0.252

2.819

0.73

Arithmetic

Points

21.231

6.019

3

22

37

 − 0.300

2.730

0.85

Spatial span

Span

5.423

0.970

0

5

7

 − 0.720

6.268

0.58

TMT-A

Resp. Time (ms)

32,517.290

18,753.160

12,168

26,579

177,934

2.599

13.347

0.95

Log(TMT-A)

 

 − 10.273

0.456

 − 12.089

 − 10.188

 − 9.407

 − 0.792

3.511

 

TMT-B

Resp. Time (ms)

47,964.500

26,575.030

14,419

40,647.5

286,388

3.040

19.373

0.96

Log(TMT-B)

 

 − 10.671

0.441

 − 12.565

 − 10.613

 − 9.576

 − 0.644

3.754

 

Cognitive Psychology/experimental Paradigms

         

Approximate number sense

Accuracy

0.812

0.055

0.540

0.815

0.930

 − 0.596

4.058

0.60

Multiple object tracking

Accuracy

0.822

0.094

0.514

0.833

1.028

 − 0.509

2.928

0.92

Visual working memory

Number correct

34.421

4.031

20

35

42

 − 0.668

3.334

0.67

Flanker interference

Conflict Resp. time

0.108

0.149

 − 0.833

0.083

0.917

0.760

9.334

0.85

Visual search

Search slope (ms/item)

57.450

20.129

 − 12.070

55.625

138.180

0.390

3.856

0.75

Gradual onset CPT

d'

2.744

0.808

 − 1.356

2.832

4.653

 − 0.845

4.942

0.88