Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for selected words. Means, minimum and maximum scores for each condition are reported. Emotionality refers to the absolute valence ratings. Freq_log refers to the logarithm of word frequency, N-size and N-frequency to neighbourhood size and frequency, respectively.
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Positive, high arousal |
Negative, high arousal |
Positive, low arousal |
Negative, low arousal |
Neutral, low arousal |
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| Mean | Min | Max | Mean | Min | Max | Mean | Min | Max | Mean | Min | Max | Mean | Min | Max | |
| Emotionality | 1.92 | 1.01 | 2.52 | 1.77 | 1.17 | 2.61 | 1.46 | 1.04 | 1.90 | 1.33 | 0.89 | 2.02 | 0.57 | 0.04 | 0.85 |
| Em. Valence | 1.92 | 1.01 | 2.52 | −1.77 | −2.61 | −1.17 | 1.46 | 1.04 | 1.90 | −1.33 | −2.02 | −0.89 | 0.19 | −0.85 | 0.85 |
| Arousal | 4.45 | 4.00 | 5.35 | 4.60 | 4.06 | 5.41 | 3.41 | 2.59 | 3.88 | 3.52 | 2.24 | 4.42 | 3.32 | 2.79 | 4.15 |
| Imageability | 4.31 | 2.51 | 6.37 | 3.88 | 2.20 | 6.51 | 3.73 | 2.07 | 6.71 | 3.44 | 1.96 | 6.48 | 3.84 | 2.05 | 6.44 |
| Letters | 7 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| Phonemes | 6 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| Syllables | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Frequency | 42 | 0 | 172 | 33 | 2 | 148 | 49 | 1 | 272 | 44 | 1 | 267 | 85 | 1 | 996 |
| Freq_log | 3.01 | 0.00 | 5.15 | 2.78 | 0.69 | 5.00 | 3.15 | 0.00 | 5.61 | 2.91 | 0.00 | 5.59 | 3.59 | 0.00 | 6.90 |
| N-size | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 34 |
| N-freq | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 9 |