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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 3.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2009 Mar 18;111(2):151–167. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.01.009

Table 3.

Mean Decision Latencies (ms) and Percent Errors for Experiments 3 and 4: Instrument Nouns

Instrument-People Instrument-Things People-Instruments

M SE M SE M SE
Decision Latency
     Unrelated 756 33 793 44 776 28
     Related 766 37 735 37 731 26
     Facilitation −10 58* 45*
Percent Errors
     Unrelated 3.2 0.9 1.0 0.7 3.6 1.3
     Related 3.5 1.1 2.1 1.2 2.6 1.1
     Facilitation −0.3 −1.1 1.0
*

Significant by participants and items