“…Among other advantages, megastudies offer the ability to conduct virtual experiments, that is, to draw samples of items with properties that vary in critical linguistic dimensions. Behavioral responses to the items in such a virtual experiment can then be treated as if they were the outcomes of an experiment designed with the critical manipulation in mind (Balota, Yap, Hutchinson, & Cortese, 2013; Keuleers, Diependaele, & Brysbaert, 2010; Sibley, Kello, & Seidenberg, 2009). The benefits of virtual experiments are many.…”