Skip to main content
. 2014 Apr;56(100):79–89. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.002

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.

Positive, high arousal
Negative, high arousal
Positive, low arousal
Negative, low arousal
Neutral, low arousal
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