Table 2.

Mean reaction time (in milliseconds) during the perceptual-motor control task and cognitive processing speed (in milliseconds) during the probabilistic category learning in healthy young and older adults

Quartile 1 Quartile 2 Quartile 3 Quartile 4
Perceptual-motor control
    Older adults 1599.5 (153.0) 1481.0 (165.8) 1184.2 (82.2) 1150.0 (84.4)
    Young adults 1094.6 (139.6) 1038.8 (151.3) 1003.3 (75.0) 987.0 (77.1)
Cognitive processing speed
    Older adults 0.60 (0.11) 0.59 (0.12) 0.66 (0.06) 0.77 (0.09)
    Young adults 0.54 (0.11) 0.56 (0.10) 0.49 (0.09) 0.58 (0.09)
  • SE values are in parentheses. Cognitive processing speed during probabilistic category learning was determined by subtracting perceptual-motor control task reaction time (RT) from probabilistic category learning RT and dividing by perceptual-motor control task RT.