- Stimuli have been **matched for**:
number of syllables (all monosyllabic)
number of letters
number of phonemes
BNC Frequency (and log of the frequency)
Ortographic Neighbourhood
Phonemic Neighbourhood
Concreteness ratings
Cortese Imageability ratings
Age of Acquisition
- We started with a first list of 100+100 verbs
- Then reduced to 69 motor and 66 non-motor verbs (by just manually trying to match them for all psycholinguistic variables).
This list was then used as input for the Match software
- After Match: output list of 40+40 verbs
We removed 4 verbs from each group because imageability ratings were still significantly different, resulting in a list of *36+36 verbs*
*These stimuli were then used in the PILOT study*