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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2012 Jul 7;124(3):314–324. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.014

Table 3.

Stimuli Pairs, and Distractor Items

Targets Freq. Competitors Freq. Distractor 1 Freq. Distractor 2 Freq.
Candy 3.21 Apple 3.04 Stapler 2.03 Watch 4.17
Pig 3.13 Frog 2.56 Mitten 1.59 Pipe 3.05
Poison 2.92 Bone 3.04 Fish 3.36 Tree 3.61
Glasses 3.15 Camera 3.36 Wrench 2.38 Rock 3.52
Chocolate 3.11 Island 2.89 Leaf 2.39 Window 3.59
Clown 2.72 Wolf 2.66 Match 3.37 Gun 3.76
Knife 3.33 Egg 3.08 Cake 3.35 Pencil 2.77
Subway 2.80 Iron 2.93 Banana 2.58 Flower 2.89
Cheese 3.33 Paper 3.88 Stamp 4.08 Cat 3.35
Movie 3.61 School 4.01 Car 4.09 Duck 2.97
Potato 2.68 Church 3.28 Door 2.92 Lighter 2.75
Screwdriver 1.98 Key 3.54 Orange 3.48 Doll 2.99
Chair 3.46 Train 3.62 Ball 2.23 Goat 2.60
Alligator 2.21 Hippo 1.63 Dresser 2.40 Tape 3.27
Bread 3.26 Wood 3.04 Flashlight 3.01 Piano 2.99
Butter 3.05 Soap 3.01 Hammer 2.39 Computer 3.17
Umbrella 2.62 Coffee 3.68 Peach 2.83 Belt 2.99
Thermometer 2.13 Carrot 2.18 Gum 2.20 Perfume 2.78
Skunk 2.19 Lion 2.56 Dinosaur 2.81 Grass 2.91
Napkin 2.49 Lipstick 2.62 Battery 2.42 Zipper 2.28

Mean (SD) 2.87 (.47) 3.03 (.57) 2.80 (.66) 3.10 (.44)

Note. Target, competitor, and distractor stimuli with spoken word frequency (Log-10) obtained from SUBTLEXus (Brysbaert & New, 2009).