Table 2.
Means (with SDs) of target specifications across experimental conditions.
| Variable | LF | HF | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | Neutral | Positive | Negative | Neutral | |
| Length | 5.8 (1.5) | 5.7 (1.4) | 5.6 (1.3) | 5.8 (1.5) | 5.7 (1.6) | 5.8 (1.2) |
| Frequency | 9.0 (4.5) | 9.4 (5.0) | 9.3 (4.8) | 65.8 (51) | 63.3 (54) | 62.6 (47) |
| Valence | 7.6 (0.5) | 2.4 (0.4) | 5.1 (0.6) | 7.8 (0.5) | 2.4 (0.6) | 5.3 (0.4) |
| Arousal | 5.9 (0.8) | 6.1 (0.7) | 4.1 (0.7) | 6.1 (0.7) | 6.3 (0.8) | 4.0 (0.5) |
| Syllables | 1.9 (0.8) | 1.8 (0.6) | 1.7 (0.6) | 1.8 (0.7) | 1.8 (0.7) | 1.9 (0.6) |
| Imageability | 4.9 (1.1) | 4.7 (1.0) | 5.0 (1.2) | 5.0 (0.9) | 4.7 (0.8) | 4.9 (1.2) |
| AoA | 3.9 (1.2) | 3.9 (0.9) | 3.5 (0.9) | 3.3 (0.8) | 3.7 (0.9) | 3.3 (0.9) |
| PoS | ||||||
| Adjective | 0.25 | 0.28 | 0.23 | 0.35 | 0.25 | 0.13 |
| Noun | 0.73 | 0.63 | 0.73 | 0.78 | 0.70 | 0.93 |
| Verb | 0.33 | 0.43 | 0.20 | 0.18 | 0.43 | 0.20 |
LF, low frequency; HF, high frequency; AoA, age of acquisition; PoS, part of speech. Units of measurement are as follows: Length in number of letters; Frequency in occurrences per million; Arousal on a scale from 1 (low) to 9 (high); Valence on a scale from 1 (low, negative) to 9 (high, positive); Syllables in number of syllables; Imageability on a scale from 1 (low) to 7 (high); AoA on a scale from 1 (early) to 7 (late). For PoS, the grammatical class of each word was determined (some words were classified as belonging to more than one class), and the average frequencies of Adjective, Noun, and Verb usage across conditions are listed.