Table 1.
Mean Reaction Time (in Millisecond) and SD (in Parentheses) for all experiments
Spatial distance sorting task | Words sorting task | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Spatially Proximal |
Spatially Distal | Spatially Proximal |
Spatially Distal | |
Experiment 1 | Experiment 7 | |||
‘NEAR’ | 706 (29) | 775 (29) | 669 (22) | 707 (33) |
‘FAR’ | 726 (33) | 724 (26) | 719 (33) | 701 (36) |
Experiment 2 | Experiment 8 | |||
‘NAIL’ | 547 (21) | 585 (17) | 590 (15) | 621 (18) |
‘SCREW’ | 547 (21) | 590 (14) | 629 (15) | 654 (25) |
Experiment 3 | Experiment 9 | |||
‘TOMORROW’ | 600 (22) | 652 (24) | 663 (16) | 681 (24) |
‘YEAR’ | 621 (22) | 645 (21) | 662 (18) | 648 (16) |
Experiment 4 | Experiment 10 | |||
‘FRIEND’ | 621 (29) | 687 (28) | 634 (17) | 647 (19) |
‘ENEMY’ | 638 (27) | 676 (26) | 667 (20) | 639 (18) |
Experiment 5 | Experiment 11 | |||
‘WE’ | 614 | 675 | 651 (16) | 665 (19) |
‘OTHERS’ | 629 | 667 | 679 (13) | 662 (15) |
Experiment 6 | Experiment 12 | |||
‘SURE’ | 603 (18) | 677 (30) | 649 (27) | 627 (30) |
‘MAYBE’ | 611 (21) | 653 (19) | 654 (26) | 649 (27) |
Experiment 13 | ||||
‘CERTAINLY’ | 659 (16) | 679 (24) | ||
‘POSSIBLY’ | 692 (16) | 642 (16) |
Congruent cells are written in bold.