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from three participants because one participant did not accurately group over 10% of the
unambiguous targets, one participant needed glasses in order to see the computer screen
but did not bring glasses to the experiment and one participant reported having vision
problem that had not been corrected by glasses or contacts. In the 4000ms prime duration,
I omitted the data from one participant because she did not accurately group over 10% of
the unambiguous targets. In the 50ms condition, participants ranged in age from 18 to 42
with a mean age of 22.4. In this condition, all of the participants were female. In the
4000ms condition, the participants ranged in age from 18 to 28 with a mean age of 21.6.
In this condition, there were 15 female participants and 3 male participants.
For both the 50ms and 4000ms prime durations, the mean reaction times to
common region targets that followed experimental primes were subtracted from mean
reaction times to common region targets that followed neutral primes. This score was
considered to be the global (common region) facilitation score. Likewise, the mean
reaction times to connectedness targets that followed experimental primes were
subtracted from mean reaction times to connectedness targets that followed neutral
primes. This score was considered to be the local (connectedness) facilitation score.
Positive scores signified an advantage whereas negative scores signified a disadvantage.
The global (common region) and local (connectedness) facilitation scores were
compared. A mixed ANOVA (Size scale X Prime duration) was used to compare
facilitation reaction times. Figure 26 depicts the results for Experiment 1. There was a
main effect of size scale [global facilitation (M = 6.17 ms, SD = 16.56 ms), local
facilitation (M = -4.33 ms, SD = 17.62 ms), F (1, 34) = 7.06, p = .012]. This result
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