Table A1.
Means (standard deviations) of the characteristics of the “old” vs. “new” target words separately for each of the four experimental setups.
| Fixed-paced ERPs | Self-paced ERPs | Valid-preview FRPs | Masked FRPs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old | New | Old | New | Old | New | Old | New | |
| M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | |
| Frequencya | 31 (32) | 30 (35) | 30 (31) | 31 (33) | 31 (33) | 31 (36) | 30 (38) | 31 (66) |
| Bigram count [N]b | 580 (493) | 577 (557) | 582 (469) | 577 (581) | 577 (447) | 579 (570) | 579 (593) | 580 (456) |
| Bigram freq.c | 7576 (7293) | 7492 (7868) | 7541 (7004) | 7559 (9086) | 7529 (7807) | 7556 (9060) | 7488 (16668) | 7525 (8018) |
| Syllables [N] | 1.8 (0.4) | 1.8 (0.4) | 1.8 (0.4) | 1.8 (0.4) | 1.8 (0.4) | 1.8 (0.4) | 1.8 (0.4) | 1.8 (0.4) |
| Letters [N] | 5.68 (1.38) | 5.68 (1.1) | 5.68 (1.1) | 5.68 (0.94) | 5.68 (1.35) | 5.68 (1.11) | 5.68 (1.24) | 5.68 (1.04) |
| Neighbors [N]d | 1.98 (2.38) | 1.98 (3.02) | 1.98 (2.06) | 1.98 (2.23) | 1.98 (2.31) | 1.98 (2.08) | 1.98 (2.25) | 1.98 (2.35) |
| Emotional valencee | 0.2 (1.33) | 0.19 (1.39) | 0.2 (1.63) | 0.19 (1.41) | 0.2 (1.45) | 0.19 (1.5) | 0.2 (1.37) | 0.2 (1.48) |
| Imageabilitye | 4.34 (1.54) | 4.33 (1.33) | 4.33 (1.27) | 4.34 (1.42) | 4.33 (1.33) | 4.32 (1.41) | 4.32 (1.34) | 4.32 (1.26) |
a
Frequency measures denote occurrences per million (CELEX; Baayen et al., 1993).
b
Number of words in the CELEX database with the same bigram.
c
Summed frequency of the words with the same bigram.
d
Number of words of the same length which differ only by one letter.
e
Võ et al. (2006); Zero denotes emotional neutrality—positive values denote positive emotional valence (max: +3); imageability ranges from 1 (low imaginability) to 7.