Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of affective and psycholinguistic properties of the words included in each condition.
| Variables | Conditions—Mean (SEM) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH | PL | NH | NL | |
| Emotional valence | 1.87 (0.07) | 1.88 (0.06) | –1.73 (0.05) | –1.74 (0.04) |
| Arousal | 3.47 (0.07) | 1.91 (0.05) | 4.05 (0.03) | 3.21 (0.05) |
| Imageability | 4.26 (0.17) | 4.51 (0.21) | 4.38 (0.19) | 4.04 (0.22) |
| Frequency of use | 24.94 (3.90) | 20.60 (3.02) | 31.90 (9.55) | 26.66 (4.35) |
| Log frequency | 1.12 (0.09) | 1.09 (0.08) | 1.11 (0.09) | 1.03 (0.11) |
| Letters | 6.28 (0.27) | 6.38 (0.23) | 6.60 (0.21) | 6.53 (0.29) |
| Phonemes | 5.65 (0.23) | 5.50 (0.21) | 5.4 (0.21) | 5.68 (0.25) |
| Syllables | 2.05 (0.12) | 2.13 (0.11) | 1.95 (0.11) | 2.18 (0.12) |
| N-Size | 1.70 (0.39) | 1.28 (0.29) | 1.05 (0.26) | 1.23 (0.33) |
| N-Frequency | 294.70 (248.40) | 107.78 (76.46) | 34.45 (17.78) | 365.57 (273.10) |
PH, positive valence, high arousal; PL, positive valence, low arousal; NH, negative valence, high arousal; NL, negative valence, low arousal; SEM, standard error of the mean; N-Size/Frequency, neighborhood-size/frequency.