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. 2021 Jul 28;8(7):201205. doi: 10.1098/rsos.201205

Table 1.

Dimensions of ACs and CCs selected words. Concrete and abstract concepts did not differ for familiarity, age of acquisition, word length dimensions.

dimensions abstract concrete t-test
concepts concepts
familiarity mean = 540.44 mean = 502.92 t(38) = 1.56, p = 0.12
s.d. = 59.7 s.d. = 88.68
age of acquisition (AoA) mean = 348.46 mean = 326.61 t(38) = 1.35, p = 0.18
s.d. = 48.75 s.d. = 54.3
word length mean = 7.7 mean = 6.9 t(38) = 1.18, p = 0.24
s.d. = 2.47 s.d. = 1.71
abstractness mean = 494.96 mean = 154.02 t(38) = 19.31, p < 0.001
s.d. = 67.8* s.d. = 39.95
concreteness mean = 262.03 mean = 634.98 t(38) = −23.98, p < 0.001
s.d. = 42.93* s.d. = 54.69
modality of acquisition (MoA) mean = 498.63 mean = 300.65 t(38) = 6.69, p < 0.001
s.d. = 82.04* s.d. = 103.77
imageability mean = 305.62 mean = 634.98 t(38) = −15.4, p < 0.001
s.d. = 76.8* s.d. = 54.66
contextual availability mean = 434.61 mean = 593.64 t(38) = −7.72, p < 0.001
s.d. = 68.88* s.d. = 61.21