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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2010 Oct 23;116(1):22–32. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.012

Table 3.

Mean ambiguity effects (and standard deviations) for appropriate normal controls and patients on each dependent measure of the lexical ambiguity task in Experiment 2.

Age Normal
controls
58.5		 Non-LIFG
patient LC
62		 LIFG
patient DW
53		 Normal
controls
68.6		 LIFG
patient ML
68
Sentence reading
  Biased ambiguous words 77 (148) 291 586** 219 (287) 1655**
  Balanced ambiguous words 29 (130) 166 217 −53 (172) −29
Word naming
  Biased ambiguous words −24 (63) −6 55 10 (67) −101
  Balanced ambiguous words −2 (92) 55 −21 −10 (46) −91
**

Abnormally large ambiguity effects on both untransformed and log-transformed RTs (both ps against controls < .05).