Table 6.

Planned comparisons proportions of correct responses (ACC) and reaction times (RT) between different positions of target-distracter mismatch within each stimulus type (nonwords, strings of consonants, and string of symbols) in Experiment 3.

Stimulus type and positions of mismatch	ACC		RT
	t1	t2	t1	t2
Nonwords
1 vs. 2	2.86*	2.64**	−3.27**	−3.78***
1 vs. 3	2.58*	2.29**	−3.19**	−3.80***
1 vs. 4	4.62***	3.47***	−4.41**	−4.32***
1 vs. 5	4.54***	4.22***	−4.12**	−4.62***
2 vs. 3	−.35	−.33	−.44	−.39
2 vs. 4	.85	.86	−.68	−.48
2 vs. 5	1.40	1.60	−1.35	−1.07
3 vs. 4	1.69	1.19	.14	−.05
3 vs. 5	2.42*	1.92°	−.49	−.64
4 vs. 5	.79	.73	−.87	−.63
Strings of consonants
1 vs. 2	1.87°	2.30*	−3.34**	−2.51*
1 vs. 3	3.48**	4.38***	−2.65*	−3.58**
1 vs. 4	2.99**	3.37**	−3.17**	−3.62**
1 vs. 5	2.10°	2.43*	−3.26**	−3.67***
2 vs. 3	2.05°	2.83**	−.46	−.99
2 vs. 4	1.45	1.65	−1.58	−1.30
2 vs. 5	.51	.49	−1.47	−1.12
3 vs. 4	−.71	−.85	−1.35	−.38
3 vs. 5	−1.63	−1.94°	−.55	−.14
4 vs. 5	−.99	−1.01	.56	.25
Strings of symbols
1 vs. 2	−2.72*	−1.90	−.50	−.43
1 vs. 3	−1.78°	−1.46	−.45	.64
1 vs. 4	−1.27	−1.02	−.74	.65
1 vs. 5	−.35	−.38	−1.15	.17
2 vs. 3	.41	.35	−.13	1.12
2 vs. 4	.92	.84	−.52	1.06
2 vs. 5	1.67	1.69°	−1.1	.60
3 vs. 4	.55	.45	−.77	.11
3 vs. 5	1.25	1.20	−1.04	−.45
4 vs. 5	.75	.73	−.47	−.49

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 (^{^}).