Post-hoc assignment of participants based on Depletion task self-rating and initial experimental condition.

Row labels refer to experimentally assigned conditions, while column labels denote groupings based on self-reported depletion task ratings. Across columns, D/ND refers to self-reported depletion task rating (above/below median score) just prior to training and just prior to test. The four possible conditions are: ND-ND, not reporting as depleted by the letter-crossing task at either time point; ND-D, reporting as depleted by the task prior to test but not training; D-ND, reporting as depleted by the task prior to training but not test; and D-D, reporting as depleted by the task at both time points. Across rows are the experimentally assigned conditions: Non-Depletion participants performed the easier, non-depleting task prior to both training and test; Pre-training Depletion participants performed the depleting task prior to training and the easier task before test; Pre-test Depletion participants performed the depleting task before test. This post-hoc grouping identifies participants who appear to have recovered from depletion over the course of learning (e.g., the 24 Pre-training Depletion participants who fell into the D-ND post-hoc group) as well as participants who may have been depleted by the SISL task itself (e.g., the 10 participants in the Non-Depletion condition who reported depletion prior to test; ND-D or D-D) or come into the experiment with high levels of depletion (e.g., the 15 participants in the Pre-test Depletion condition who already self-reported feeling depleted prior to training).
Post-hoc assignment of participants based on Depletion task self-rating and initial experimental condition.