Table 2 Mean scores on cognitive tasks Pre and post Tai Chi training, for Chinese and Non- Chinese samples
| Number | Pre-test | Post-test |
Pre vs. Post p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | |||
| Chinese sample | ||||||
| Figural Intersections Task | 34 | 20.06 | (8.54) | 22.00 | (7.96) | .031 |
| Antisaccade | 34 | .47 | (.16) | .58 | (.21) | <.001 |
| Water Level Task | 35 | 10.43 | (4.34) | 11.84 | (3.89) | .057 |
| Matrix reasoning | 35 | 42.26 | (11.52) | 47.17 | (11.89) | .002 |
| Non-Chinese sample | ||||||
| Figural Intersections Task | 28 | 18.86 | (6.59) | 18.21 | (7.48) | .469 |
| Antisaccade | 25 | 55 | (.19) | 57 | (.22) | .628 |
| Water Level Task | 28 | 10.31 | (4.96) | 12.09 | (2.92) | .030 |
| Matrix reasoning | 28 | 44.21 | (10.65) | 45.04 | (11.02) | .525 |