The younger adolescent group showed a trend toward more perseverative errors in the Environmental Noise condition ( M = 5.52, SD = 4.72) compared to those in the White Noise condition ( M = 3.08, SD = 2.25), p = 0.064; however, there was no difference between the noise conditions for the older adolescents ( M enviro = 4.26, SD enviro = 3.99 and M white = 5.19, SD white = 4.73), p = 0.49.
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The Negative Impact of Noise on Adolescents' Executive Function: An Online Study in the Context of Home-Learning During a Pandemic.
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While we did not find this overarching effect, when splitting participants into younger and older adolescent age groups, results showed a clear trend on the WCST whereby the younger adolescents were making more perseverative and total errors in the presence of the environmental noise, compared to those simply in the white noise condition.