Compares several methods of presenting text, including a new paradigm that produces reading-time data with many of the characteristics of naturally occurring eye-fixation data. In the" moving window" condition, a reader presses a button to see each successive word in a text, and the previous word is removed when a new word appears. 35 undergraduates read short passages under cumulative, moving-, and stationary-window conditions. The moving-window condition most closely resembled gaze durations. Results suggest that readers initiate the processing of each word as soon as they encounter it rather than buffer words and delay processing. It is considered that the tendency to immediately process text might interact with other techniques for text presentation, such as the rapid serial visual presentation condition.(14 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)