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. 2016 Mar 1;7:214. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00214

Table 1.

Sample verbal item in all three conditions from (A) Experiment 1 and (B) Experiment 2.

Sentence # Condition Sentence
(A)
1 The cat is diagonal to the bed.
2 It is in the upper left corner.
3 Pronoun It is next to the pump.
Repeated The cat is next to the pump.
New The pump is next to the cat.
(B)
1 Unrelated The cat is diagonal to the bed.
Related The cat is above the mouse.
2 It is in the upper left corner.
3 Pronoun It is next to the pump.
Repeated The cat is next to the pump.

Sentence 1 and 3 varied by condition, Sentence 2 remained constant. Participants heard one combination of each item, and each participant heard 6 of each combination of Unrelated-Pronoun, Unrelated-Repeated, Related-Pronoun, Related-Repeated within the experiment. Sentences 1 and 2 were the same in all conditions, while Sentence 3 varied by condition. (B) Sample verbal item in Experiment 2 in all conditions.