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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2010 Aug 21;115(3):149–161. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.07.006

Table 1.

Example stimuli

Opposite Cue Expected Incongruent
The opposite of above below civil
The opposite of bottom top clear
The opposite of dirty clean final
The opposite of future past stage
The opposite of heaven hell chief
The opposite of male female green
The opposite of over under least
The opposite of rise fall name
The opposite of shallow deep active
The opposite of victory defeat company
Category Cue High Typicality Low Typicality Incongruent
A kind of tree Oak ash tin
A part of the human body Leg throat keys
A type of reading material magazine poem ration
An insect Ant hornet gate
A type of dance waltz tap bait
A type of tax income estate sleeve
A green vegetable lettuce cabbage patient
A part of a house bedroom basement dictator
A cleaning instrument broom towel porch
A water sport swimming rowing pottery