Table 3.

Performance in the recognition task in Experiments 1 and 2

Sentence polarity
Experiment 1Experiment 2
AffirmativeNegativeAffirmativeNegative
Go
    RT1388 (304)1433 (320)1464 (296)1493 (288)
    Errors4.9 (3.9)5.7 (4.8)3.0 (4.0)5.4 (7.0)
NoGo
    RT1491 (352)1485 (356)1529 (340)1568 (303)
    Errors6.3 (8.2)6.9 (7.1)5.5 (6.8)5.5 (6.0)
  • Mean reaction times (RTs) in milliseconds and percentage of errors as a function of cue (Go/NoGo) and polarity (affirmative/negative). SDs are shown in parentheses.