Table 1.

Experiment 1 (minimal context).

Channel	320–440 ms					550–700 ms
	M (μV)	L (μV)	F-value	p	${\eta }_{\mathrm{\text{p}}}^2$	M (μV)	L (μV)	F-value	p	${\eta }_{\mathrm{\text{p}}}^2$
F3	−1.869	−1.159	3.050	0.106	0.20	0.010	−0.491	0.775	0.396	0.06
Fz	−1.892	−0.719	6.395	0.026*	0.35	0.247	−0.113	0.423	0.528	0.03
F4	−1.945	−0.811	5.751	0.034*	0.32	0.177	−0.180	0.643	0.438	0.05
FC1	−1.990	−0.904	5.137	0.043*	0.30	0.809	0.074	1.490	0.246	0.11
FCz	−2.115	−0.714	7.312	0.019*	0.38	0.818	0.278	0.745	0.405	0.06
FC2	−2.104	−0.691	8.141	0.015*	0.40	0.721	0.303	0.584	0.459	0.05
C3	−1.811	−0.795	5.761	0.034*	0.32	0.526	0.108	0.736	0.408	0.06
C1	−2.018	−0.917	6.359	0.027*	0.35	0.922	0.170	1.844	0.199	0.13
Cz	−2.174	−0.985	5.550	0.036*	0.32	1.199	0.280	1.942	0.189	0.14
C2	−1.955	−0.837	5.946	0.031*	0.33	1.053	0.189	2.207	0.163	0.16
C4	−1.666	−0.564	5.630	0.035*	0.32	0.800	0.139	1.377	0.263	0.10
CP3	−1.408	−0.533	4.665	0.052	0.28	0.702	−0.153	4.504	0.055	0.27
CP1	−1.600	−0.603	4.489	0.056	0.27	0.979	−0.036	3.305	0.094	0.22
CP2	−1.474	−0.483	4.749	0.050*	0.28	1.166	0.076	2.752	0.123	0.19
CP4	−1.385	−0.261	5.282	0.040*	0.31	0.758	−0.065	1.954	0.188	0.14
P3	−0.757	−0.074	2.762	0.122	0.19	0.887	−0.175	6.836	0.023*	0.36
P1	−0.980	−0.245	2.487	0.141	0.17	1.164	−0.140	6.495	0.026*	0.35
Pz	−1.175	−0.281	3.141	0.102	0.21	1.253	−0.115	4.940	0.046*	0.29
P2	−1.063	−0.302	1.978	0.185	0.14	1.029	−0.294	4.100	0.066	0.25
P4	−1.089	−0.228	2.699	0.126	0.18	0.683	−0.393	2.817	0.119	0.19
PO3	−0.342	−0.114	0.291	0.600	0.02	0.802	−0.415	9.250	0.010*	0.44
PO1	−0.648	−0.162	1.183	0.298	0.09	0.950	−0.368	7.939	0.016*	0.40
POz	−0.788	−0.305	0.831	0.380	0.06	1.043	−0.435	7.960	0.015*	0.40
PO2	−0.946	−0.265	1.644	0.224	0.12	0.750	−0.572	4.294	0.060	0.26
PO4	−1.113	−0.663	0.783	0.394	0.06	0.524	−0.839	5.116	0.043*	0.30

Mean amplitude (μV) for the metaphorical (M) and literal (L) conditions in the N400 and P600 time windows on a sample of relevant electrodes, with significance values for the Metaphoricity factor [F_{(1, 12)};

^*p < 0.05].