Table 1.
Displays the means (SD) of the manipulated and controlled variables of the target stimuli in the four experimental conditions. Emotional valence ranges from −3 to +3. Imageability and arousal range from 0 to 5.
| Factors: old/new Co-occurrence | New | Old | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | High | Low | High | |
| Number of stimuli | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Number of significantly co-occurring items in the stimulus set | 3.85 (1.70) | 13.90 (4.73) | 3.80 (1.70) | 13.85 (4.04) |
| Emotional valence | 0.11 (1.31) | 0.03 (1.23) | 0.03 (1.09) | 0.00 (1.34) |
| Imageability | 3.89 (1.22) | 3.96 (1.29) | 3.94 (1.20) | 4.01 (1.43) |
| Arousal | 2.95 (0.53) | 2.90 (0.58) | 2.87 (0.54) | 2.98 (0.64) |
| Word frequency class | 11.65 (0.70) | 11.65 (0.70) | 11.68 (0.47) | 11.57 (0.71) |
| Number of orthographic neighbors | 1.57 (2.26) | 1.32 (1.81) | 1.57 (2.14) | 1.70 (2.29) |
| Bigram frequency | 17520 (106001) | 17556 (9263) | 16489 (9149) | 16648 (8546) |
| Number of letters | 6.08 (1.07) | 6.12 (1.14) | 6.22 (1.10) | 5.97 (1.35) |