Table 5.
Spatial Distance Conditions, Defined in Letter Spaces, Along With the Corresponding Verbal Distances in Words in Experiment 1 (Number of Words, As Computed From First Source Unit to Target Word)
| Verbal Distance |
Regression Error |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Between |
Within |
Between |
Within |
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| Spatial Distance | M | SE | M | SE | M | SE | M | SE | df | Error Difference |
| 10–15 | 7.72 | 0.1 | 3.02 | 0.1 | 11.9 | 2.3 | 5.7 | 0.7 | 58 | 6.2** |
| 16–20 | 7.56 | 0.1 | 3.41 | 0.1 | 9.3 | 1.1 | 5.7 | 0.5 | 124 | 3.6*** |
| 21–25 | 7.54 | 0.1 | 3.73 | 0.05 | 9.1 | 1.0 | 7.2 | 0.6 | 123 | 1.9 |
| 26–30 | 6.12 | 0.3 | 4.47 | 0.2 | 10.3 | 1.9 | 8.1 | 1.1 | 48 | 2.2 |
| 31–35 | 5.06 | 0.4 | 6.85 | 0.15 | 7.6 | 1.2 | 13.7 | 1.7 | 35 | −6.1*** |
| 36–40 | 4.12 | 0.1 | 7.14 | 0.1 | 14.6 | 2.3 | 16.5 | 1.2 | 79 | −1.8 |
| 41–45 | 3.65 | 0.1 | 7.25 | 0.04 | 14.4 | 1.4 | 20.1 | 0.8 | 162 | −5.7** |
| 46–50 | 4.30 | 0.3 | 7.41 | 0.1 | 19.1 | 2.9 | 22.5 | 1.5 | 64 | −3.4 |
Note—Average deviations, standard errors, difference scores, and significance values of within- and between-line comparisons are also provided. The data show average deviations across conditions, not participants.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.