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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2009 Aug 19;20(10):1262–1268. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02429.x

TABLE 2. Mean Reaction Times and Error Percentages in Experiments 1 and 2.

Mean reaction time (ms)
Experiment and utterance type Display type Related condition Unrelated condition Reaction time difference (ms)
Experiment 1a
 Noun-noun Picture-word 735 (5) 709 (1) −26
 Adjective-noun Colored word 698 (3) 742 (6) 44
Experiment 1b
  Noun-verb Picture-word 623 (3) 644 (9) 21
Experiment 2a
 Adjective-noun Colored picture 802 (12) 847 (12) 46
 Noun-adjective Colored picture 861 (9) 867 (10) 6
Experiment 2b
 Adjective-adjective-noun Picture-word 856 (9) 880 (8) 24

Note. Paired words in the related condition shared at least their onset consonant (e.g., ring, rake). Paired words in the unrelated condition did not share onset consonants (e.g., glass, rake). Reaction time difference was calculated by subtracting the reaction time in the related condition from the mean reaction time in the unrelated condition. Standard errors are given in parentheses.