operator '==' not supported for operands of type 'cell'

While there are some useful answers to this type of question, a lot of them are too advanced for me to understand/use as a beginning MATLAB student. I am trying to loop through rows of a table to find instances in which in a particular index is equal to something. Here is a picture of what my table looks like:

and I am interested in comparing when a subject has responded true or false to a certain verb ('smashed' is one of 3). My idea for doing this would be to make a for loop such as the following:

smashedFalseCounter = 0;
for i = 1:height(myTable)
    if myTable.verb(i) == 'smashed'
        if expTable2.response(i) == false
            smashedFalseCounter = smashedFalseCounter + 1;
        end
    end
end

And I get the following error message:

[Mohammad Sami]

Use string comparison functions.

strcmp(myTable.verb{i}, 'smashed')

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

ismember(myTable.verb(i), 'smashed')

[madhan ravi]

And by the way you don’t need a loop.

Counts = nnz(ismember(myTable.verb(myTable.Response == true), 'smashed'))