Table 2.

Mean RTs (with s.d.) and per cent errors for four- and six-letter words and non-words presented in the LVF and RVF in test 1 (before training on the non-words) and test 2 (after training on the non-words) in Experiment 1.

	LVF		RVF
	four letters	six letters	four letters	six letters
test 1
words
mean RT	534	569	503	519
s.d.	67.2	71.1	75.5	68.6
% error	3.2	5.3	2.8	2.8
non-words
mean RT	591	673	569	640
s.d.	87.0	104.8	87.3	112.0
% error	9.2	24.5	7.2	20.8
test 2
words
mean RT	495	522	472	486
s.d.	72.8	69.1	65.8	70.4
% error	1.7	3.0	2.2	1.3
non-words
mean RT	505	552	493	499
s.d.	66.2	76.2	71.3	12.6
% error	2.2	4.7	1.3	2.3