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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2010 Apr 20;116(1):136–142. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.03.016

Table 1.

An example sentence from the experiment illustrating each of the four conditions.

1. Unspaced compound – correct preview
Charles announced that he was going to the bathroom to wash his hands.
2. Unspaced compound – incorrect preview
Charles announced that he was going to the bathroan to wash his hands.
3. Monomorphemic word – correct preview
Charles announced that he was going to the fountain to wash his hands.
4. Monomorphemic word – incorrect preview
Charles announced that he was going to the fountaom to wash his hands.

Note: The stimuli shown in italics indicate the preview for each condition prior to the eyes' crossing of the display change boundary. All sentences were displayed on one or two lines on the screen with a maximum of 85 characters per line. All letters were lowercase and in mono-spaced Courier font. The preview was always approximately in the middle of the screen and replaced by the correct word after the boundary had been crossed.