Table 4.

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 lower case before training on the non-words (test 1), in lower case after training on the non-words (test 2A) and in mixed case after training on the non-words (test 2B) in Experiment 2.

	LVF		RVF
	four letters	six letters	four letters	six letters
test 1: lower-case presentation before training on the non-words
words
mean RT	550	585	530	543
s.d.	57.2	68.2	62.4	64.5
% error	3.2	3.8	2.5	2.2
non-words
mean RT	606	702	582	656
s.d.	80.6	99.9	78.8	104.5
% error	6.8	21.9	4.5	16.9
test 2A: lower-case presentation after training on the non-words
words
mean RT	528	558	503	512
s.d.	61.9	72.1	67.1	73.4
% error	2.7	3.1	3.9	3.2
non-words
mean RT	536	589	524	534
s.d.	62.1	70.5	61.8	68.2
% error	3.4	4.8	2.9	3.4
test 2B: mixed-case presentation after training on the non-words
words
mean RT	564	601	555	566
s.d.	73.8	81.5	63.2	85.7
% error	5.2	6.1	5.4	4.8
non-words
mean RT	588	631	550	610
s.d.	68.4	71.8	60.2	87.5
% error	5.6	7.3	4.0	7.2