Table 1.

Results of the overall repeated-measures ANOVAs and post-hoc tests. Upper table provides EEG-results in the early- (250–450 ms), mid- (450–650 ms) and late- (650–850 ms) latency windows. Lower table lists the results for fNIRS; changes in [deoxy-Hb] and [oxy-Hb] are listed separately. The factors analyzed were: PREPOST: comparison between pre- and post-test; TRAIN: trained versus untrained items; LEGALITY: differences between legal and illegal pseudowords, and DAY: changes over the three consecutive days of training. Since separate ANOVAs were performed for the different ROIs Bonferroni correction requires a p < 0.005 for the 9 ROIs in the EEG analysis and a p < 0.006 for the 8 ROIs analyzed for fNIRS. Effects surviving this are marked by an asterisk *, those significant only at the uncorrected level (p < 0.05) are indicated by ^$. For illustrations of the main effects and significant post-hoc comparisons see Fig. 3, Fig. 4 (EEG) and Fig. 5, Fig. 6 (fNIRS). The upper row in each cell provides the degrees of freedom, the F- and the p-values of the respective main effect or interaction: (df):F-value/p-value. The lower row indicates the result of the post-hoc testing; n.s. indicates that the interaction was significant but that post-hoc testing showed no effect or did not survive Bonferroni correction (for the 3-level factor DAY).