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Table 1 Children and adults RT (in ms) and percentage of errors in the flanker task

From: Development of the time course for processing conflict: an event-related potentials study with 4 year olds and adults

 

RT

% Errors

 

Overall

C

I

Conflict

Overall

C

I

Conflict

Adults

431 (86)

415 (83)

445 (85)

30** (20)

1.4 (1.9)

0.2 (0.65)

2.6 (0.65)

2.3* (3.9)

Children (n = 22)

1614 (489)

1490 (476)

1913 (916)

424* (773)

16.7 (13.6)

10.6 (12.4)

22.87 (21.9)

12.98* (22.9)

Children (n = 14) a

1385 (349)

1292 (327)

1525 (563)

233 # (436)

10.4 (8.2)

8.4 (8.9)

12.38 (8.7)

3.95* (6.16)

  1. SDs are shown in brackets. Conflict is measured by subtracting congruent (C) from incongruent (I) data. Significance of the conflict effects (using t-tests): ** p < .001; * p < .05; # p < .07. a Children with a minimum of 12 clean ERP segments