Table 1.
Psycholinguistic variables for the stimuli used in the task-based fMRI study.
| Condition | Word length |
Number of words |
Manipulability |
Lexical frequency |
Familiarity |
Imageability |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Global association | 6.92 | 1.71 | 1.23 | .26 | 4.77 | .61 | 3.98 | .39 | 5.74 | .57 | 5.96 | .51 |
| Size feature | 7.45 | 1.52 | 1.24 | .27 | 4.77 | .53 | 3.89 | .43 | 5.88 | .55 | 6.09 | .42 |
| Specific feature: action | 7.13 | 1.64 | 1.27 | .37 | 4.35 | .44 | 3.94 | .06 | 5.93 | .46 | 6.30 | .24 |
| Specific feature: colour | 7.63 | 1.87 | 1.28 | .22 | 5.29 | .33 | 3.81 | .37 | 5.75 | .49 | 5.67 | .39 |