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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cortex. 2019 Oct 2;121:362–384. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.09.005

Table 6.

Types of errors made in the metaphor and literal conditions by each group.

Metaphor Literal
Foil 1 (literal) Foil 2 (opposite) Foil 3 (unrelated) Foil 1 (agent category) Foil 2 (opposite) Foil 3 (unrelated)
PD Percent 76.29% 19.24% 4.47% 42.02% 43.7% 14.29%
Sum 222 56 13 50 52 17
Mean 5.41 1.37 0.32 1.22 1.27 0.41
NC Percent 76.61% 22.58% 0.81% 56.14% 35.09% 8.77%
Sum 190 56 2 32 20 5
Mean 4.87 1.44 0.05 0.82 0.51 0.13