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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2012 Aug 9;125(2):219–232. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.003

Table 6.

Comprehension data for collections of objects; questions are “What color X?”

Collectiona Question Response
4B, 7Y, 10Gy blocks What color 7? Yellow
2O, 4G, 7Ppl sticks What color 4? Green
What color 7? Purple
5Y, 8R, 10G paper pieces What color 8? Rose
3B, 7O, 8G wool pompons What color 7? Orange
6Y, 7G, 8B candies What color 8? Six-Yellow, Blue
6G, 7O, 8Y jelly beans What color 7? Yellow
7B, 8Gy, 9O wool pompons What color 8? Eight (4x), Grey
6G, 7O, 9R pasta What color 7? Orange
5Ppl, 6O, 7G jelly beans What color 7? Green
4Gy, 7O, 8B blocks What color 8? Blue
4B, 7Y, 10Ppl wool What color 7? Yellow
7R, 8G, 9Ppl wool What color 8? Green
a

B refers to blue, G to green, Gy to grey (all shades of grey to black), O to orange, Ppl to purple, R to rose (red), and Y to yellow. Again, except for blocks, items are all differently-sized.