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. 2025 Aug 22;15:30971. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-16841-5

Table 4.

Mean RTs elicited for the four sentence types paired with related and unrelated english and Spanish primes. Square brackets represent SE.

Sentence type English Spanish
Related Unrelated Related Unrelated
Novel metaphor 1196 (16.7) 1175 (16.8) 1209 (18.3) 1236 (16.6)
Literal 1213 (17.1) 1202 (16.8) 1231 (18.2) 1232 (17.2)
Novel simile 1180 (16.6) 1205 (16.7) 1182 (17.7) 1182 (16.8)
Anomalous 1115 (17.2) 1110 (16.8) 1100 (18.2) 1110 (18.1)