The auditory moving-window is a psycholinguistic paradigm developed at Michigan State University by Fernanda Ferreira and colleagues.
[1] Ferreira and colleagues built the paradigm in order to address the scarcity of (fluent) spoken-language comprehension literature versus the robustness of that for visual-word processing.
One such study suggests that many aphasic patients retain their abilities to process syntactic structures on-line.
Further, evidence suggests that Expressive aphasics have a degraded ability to process complex syntax on-line, whereas Receptive aphasics are impaired only after on-line comprehension concludes [2] The auditory moving-window paradigm, because of its similarity to the eye tracking paradigm, has a broad range of applications.
[1] Further, it is sensitive to garden path effects[1] Because one of the aims of the auditory moving-window is to investigate fluent speech, the paradigm is several steps more complex than simple auditory word-by-word presentation: The presentation of a prepared sample depends on what software is being used.