Table 3.

Planned comparisons for proportions of correct responses (ACC) and reaction times (RT) between different positions of target-distracter mismatch within each word-length in Experiment 1.

Word length and positions of mismatch	ACC		RT
	t1	t2	t1	t2
Three-letter words
1 vs. 2	4.19***	2.99**	−2.45*	−2.59*
1 vs. 3	5.71***	3.93**	−3.25**	−2.13*
2 vs. 3	1.09	.81	.26	.47
Four-letter words
1 vs. 2	5.56**	2.27*	−6.19***	−5.12***
1 vs. 3	3.36**	3.00**	−5.83***	−3.89***
1 vs. 4	4.69***	3.12**	−5.16***	−4.01***
2 vs. 3	1.03	.88	1.39	.98
2 vs. 4	1.63	1.18	1.42	.86
3 vs. 4	.44	.36	.49	−.11
Five-letter words
1 vs. 2	1.79°^	1.79°^	−5.73***	−5.32***
1 vs. 3	2.08*^	1.66	−5.69***	−5.44***
1 vs. 4	3.42**	3.54**	−6.17***	−6.7***
1 vs. 5	5.92***	3.28**	−5.48***	−4.30***
2 vs. 3	−.24	−.18	−.74	.31
2 vs. 4	1.38	1.36^	−1.85°^	−1.57^
2 vs. 5	1.99°	1.68°^	.24	.56
3 vs. 4	2.00°	1.61^	−.98	−1.99°^
3 vs. 5	3.1**	1.9°^	.95	.31
4 vs. 5	1.27^	.76	2.02 °	1.99°
Six-letter words
1 vs. 2	3.94***	3.38**	−5.72***	−5.58***
1 vs. 3	4.5***	3.40**	−6.32***	−5.81***
1 vs. 4	4.76***	4.15***	−8.03***	−5.67***
1 vs. 5	6.49***	5.17***	−6.79***	−6.2***
1 vs. 6	5.34***	4.71***	−6.13***	−5.35***
2 vs. 3	.41	.30	−.10	.02
2 vs. 4	1.35	1.13	−.99	−.27
2 vs. 5	3.63**	2.29*	−1.97°^	−.96
2 vs. 6	2.15*	1.65^	−1.31	−1.07
3 vs. 4	1.02	.79	−.89	−.29
3 vs. 5	2.42*	1.91°^	−1.45	−1.01
3 vs. 6	1.73	1.28	−1.19	−1.11
4 vs. 5	1.82°	1.15	−.68	−.68
4 vs. 6	.66	.49	−.35	−.86
5 vs. 6	−1.00	−.68	.26	−.27

Note. t₁ refers to paired-sample t-test conducted within participants. t₂ refers to independent-sample t-test conducted between items.

^***p < .001;

^**p < .01;

^*p < .05;

^°p < .1. Results, in terms of significance, were the same across analyses on raw accuracies/response latencies and arcsine-root-transformed accuracies/z-score-transformed response latencies, except where marked (^{^}).