Table 3.
Psycholinguistic properties of the stimuli included in the fMRI analysis. Table shows means and standard deviations (in parentheses) for word frequency (counts per million) and imageability.
| Task |
Celex written |
Imageability |
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| Easy | Hard | Easy | Hard | |
| Probes | ||||
| Non-semantic | 3.96 (.37) | 3.84 (.36) | 600 (11) | 602 (11) |
| Verbal semantic | 3.95 (.42) | 3.97 (.45) | 598 (16) | 592 (15) |
| Picture semantic | 3.83 (.35) | 3.95 (.42) | 598 (22) | 591 (19) |
| Targets | ||||
| Non-semantic | 4.03 (.20) | 3.92 (.22) | 558 (10) | 564 (14) |
| Verbal semantic | 4.09 (.25) | 4.04 (.28) | 599 (8) | 589 (10) |
| Picture semantic | 4.03 (.30) | 4.27 (.23) | 594 (13) | 592 (7) |