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Participants completed a comprehensive neuropsychological battery; TGC was measured during the N-back task. An optimal TGC cutoff was determined during the performance of the 2-back. This TGC cutoff was used to classify participants into low vs. high-TGC groups. We then compared Cohen's d of the difference in global cognition between the high and low TGC groups to Cohen's d between the MCI and MCI+rMDD groups. We used bootstrapping to determine 95% confidence intervals for Cohen's d values using the whole sample. As hypothesized, Cohen's d for the difference in global cognition between the TGC groups was larger (0.64 [0.32, 0.88]) than between the diagnostic groups (0.10 [0.004, 0.37]) with a difference between these two Cohen's d's of 0.54 [0.10, 0.80]. Our findings suggest that TGC is a useful marker to identify individuals at high risk for cognitive decline, beyond clinical diagnosis. 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