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Table 1 Characteristics of the whole sample and of each group separately

From: Expertise-related functional brain network efficiency in healthy older adults

Demographics

All

Multi-domain training

Visuomotor training

Control participants

Sample size (f, m)

46 (28, 18)

13 (9, 4)

16 (8, 8)

17 (11, 6)

Age

70.28 (2.87)

71.02 (2.57)

70.23 (2.18)

69.77 (3.62)

MMSE

29.02 (0.80)

29.00 (0.91)

29.06 (0.85)

29.00 (0.71)

Depression

1.22 (1.41)

1.46 (1.33)

1.13 (1.50)

1.12 (1.45)

Handedness

13.09 (2.73)

12.38 (0.96)

12.13 (0.50)

14.53 (4.06)

School education

9.97 (1.90)

9.96 (1.90)

9.97 (2.15)

9.97 (1.77)

Vocabulary

32.48 (2.05)

32.31 (2.43)

32.88 (1.71)

32.24 (2.11)

  1. Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) are indicated. MMSE [Mini-Mental Status Examination; 45]; depression [Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS); 46, 47]; handedness [49]; vocabulary [MWT-B; 48]