word of the antonym pair as ‘Primed’. Thus, in total there were 50 Prime and 50 Primed words. These antonym pairs were always preceded and followed by non-words. The remaining 50 words were not part of antonym pairs and were considered as unrelated words (Unprimed); these words were generally interspersed among the non-words, but sometimes two unrelated words followed each other. (Please refer to figure 1).
