Table 1. Lexical Characteristics of the Stimuli used in Experiments 1 and 2 (Standard Deviations in Parentheses).
Length | Orthographic N | Log HAL Frequency∓ | Mean RT* | Mean Accuracy* | |
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Targets | |||||
Low Frequency | 6.67 (2.88) | 5.88 (6.48) | 6.72 (.80) | 740 (97) | .87 (.14) |
High Frequency | 6.96 (2.96) | 5.5 (8.75) | 11.06 (1.05) | 625 (73) | .98 (.02) |
Nonwords** | 5 (.98) | 3.67 (2.82) | |||
Fillers | |||||
Low Frequency | 7.04 (2.88) | 4.29 (4.71) | 6.93 (.80) | 741 (109) | .93 (.11) |
High Frequency | 6.54 (2.88) | 5.04 (6.82) | 10.88 (.83) | 624 (57) | .98 (.03) |
Nonwords | 6.33 (2.20) | 3.02 (4.08) |
HAL frequency counts are based on approximately 400 million observations (Brysbaert & New, 2009). The table presents log-transformed frequency estimates
Estimates obtained from the ELP database
Nonwords did not serve as targets in Experiment 2 because they were not primed