Fig. 3

Potential patterns of results for the congruent and incongruent conditions depending on whether the conceptual level dominates inferred mappings (left), the numeric level dominates (middle) or the conceptual and numeric levels equally play a role (right). The y-axis represents mean response time (RT) in seconds. The labels along the x-axis correspond to lightness encoded mapping and indicate whether the encoded mapping was dark-more (D+) or light-more (L+) at the conceptual or numeric level (see Fig. 2 for examples of legends with these different encoded mappings). These predictions also apply to height encoded mapping if D+ were replaced with high-more (Hi+) and L+ were replaced with low-more (Lo+)