Table 4.
Mean (SD) reaction time (RTs) of target sentences and accuracy (ACC).
| Sentence type | Level | RTs (ms) | Diff. | ACC (%) | Diff. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Related prime | Unrelated prime | Related prime | Unrelated prime | ||||
| M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | ||||
| CMs | High | 2862.5 (770.5) | 3041.2 (918.1) | 178.7 | 92.9 (7.7) | 91.8 (7.3) | −1.0 |
| Low | 3236.4 (862.4) | 3480.1 (1135.8) | 243.7 | 89.3(10.1) | 88.8 (9.1) | −0.5 | |
| Total | 3073.8 (840.3) | 3289.3 (1063.9) | 205.5 | 90.8 (9.3) | 90.1 (8.5) | −0.3 | |
| NMs | High | 3328.9 (945.6) | 3661.1 (1138.7) | 332.2 | 91.3 (9.1) | 89.4 (9.5) | −1.9 |
| Low | 3712.0 (1158.1) | 4181.9 (1334.9) | 469.9 | 87.1 (9.9) | 88.6 (9.5) | −1.5 | |
| Total | 3545.4 (1082.3) | 3955.4 (1273.5) | 410.0 | 88.9 (9.7) | 88.9 (9.4) | 0.0 | |
| L-CMs | High | 2568.3 (797.3) | 2673.6 (742.2) | 105.3 | 93.6 (6.2) | 90.3 (9.3) | −3.2 |
| Low | 2913.7 (943.0) | 2995.3 (934.6) | 81.7 | 92.6 (7.6) | 92.3 (7.9) | −0.3 | |
| Total | 2763.5 (894.7) | 2855.4 (866.8) | 91.9 | 93.0 (7.0) | 91.5 (8.5) | −1.5 | |
| L-NMs | High | 2607.3 (765.1) | 2787.3 (777.0) | 180.1 | 88.8 (9.9) | 86.1 (9.4) | −2.7 |
| Low | 2952.9 (818.1) | 3102.8 (919.2) | 149.9 | 86.4 (9.8) | 86.4 (11.1) | 0.0 | |
| Total | 2802.6 (809.7) | 2965.6 (870.1) | 163.0 | 87.5 (9.9) | 86.3 (10.4) | −1.2 | |
CMs are conventional metaphor; NMs are novel metaphor; L-CMs & L-NMs are the literal counterparts to conventional metaphors and novel metaphors, respectively; High and Low refer to higher-level learners and lower-level learners, respectively. Diff. refers to the priming size between priming conditions.