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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2016 Aug 24;156:135–146. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.07.010

Table 11:

Hierarchical regressions of Hits and False Alarms in recognition memory. Control variables are entered in Step 1, word-level semantic variables in Step 2 and contextual-level semantic variables in Steps 3a, 3b, and 3c.

Step Variables Hits
False Alarms
R2 ΔR2 F R2 ΔR2 F
1 Word Frequency, Length, Percent Known, AoA, OLD, PLD 29.00 29.00 273.61*** 12.28 12.28 93.75***
2 Valence, Arousal, Concreteness 35.03 6.03 144.85*** 14.39 2.11 38.58***
3a Context Valence 35.06 .03  2.62 14.48 .09  5.04
3b Context Arousal 35.57 .54 39.73*** 14.53 .14  7.81
3c Context Concreteness 35.24 .21  15.66** 14.86 .47 25.47***
*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.

Note: R2 and ΔR2 given as percentage of variance explained.