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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2011 Jul 31;49(12):3201–3212. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.021

Table 2.

Stimuli Characteristics

Arousal Valence Use Frequency Word Type
M(SD) Range M(SD) Range M(SD) Range % Noun
Neutral 3.9 (0.46) 2.9 – 5.3 5.2 (0.57) 3.8 – 7.3 31.5(32.4) 1– 143 78%
Positive 6.48*(0.62) 5.5 – 8.1 7.8*(0.43) 7.0 – 8.2 28.3(29.7) 1 – 173 73%
Negative 6.58*(0.58) 4.59 – 8.2 2.25*(0.45) 1.25 – 3.23 24.5(37.2) 1 – 277 74%

Note. Standard deviations are shown in parentheses. Word type is the percentage of words that qualify as nouns.

*

Significant difference between neutral and emotional stimuli, p < .01.