Table 7.

Published lexical decision experiments involving frequency effects and virtual experiments with the same stimuli from the British Lexicon Project (studies are chronologically ordered)

		Original Experiment RTs	Virtual Experiment RTs
Monsell, Doyle, and Haggard (1989, Experiment 1)	High frequency, person	538	535
	High frequency, thing	541	539
	Medium frequency, person	553	570
	Medium frequency, thing	570	565
	Low frequency, person	639	640
	Low frequency, thing	617	618
	Effect of frequency	88**	92**
	Effect of animacy	1	8
	Frequency × animacy interaction	p<.01	n.s.
Monsell et al. (1989, Experiment 3)	High frequency, initial stress	538	541
	High frequency, final stress	543	551
	Low frequency, initial stress	642	646
	Low frequency, final stress	616	598
	Effect of frequency	89**	77**
	Effect of stress	10	19+
	Frequency × stress Interaction	15	29**
Morrison and Ellis (1995, Experiment 6)	High frequency	548	542
	Low frequency	602	576
	Effect of frequency	54**	34**
Yap et al. (2008, Experiment 1)	High frequency	557	531
	Low frequency	605	574
	Effect of frequency	48**	43**

** p<.01, * p<.05, ⁺ p<.10 or significant only in F ₁ or F ₂