9. An Application of Multiple Regression Techniques to Sentence Reading Times -- Overview of Methodology -- Materials and Procedure -- Collection of Sentence Reading Times -- Passages -- Comprehension Test -- Predictor Variables -- Word-level Predictors -- Sentence-level Predictors -- Passage-level Predictors -- Problems and Issues in Applying Multiple Regression -- Collinearity Between Predictors of Reading Time -- Eliminating Nonsignificant Predictor Variables -- Multicollinearity -- Results -- Analysis of Mean Sentence Reading Times -- Analysis of Individual Subjects' Reading Times -- The Reliability and Validity of Reading Time Slope Coefficients -- Summary -- Theoretical Conclusions and Issues -- Resource Allocation and Autom atic Processes -- Interpretation of Processing Times -- Limitations of the Approach -- 10. Components of Sentence and Word Reading Times -- General Assumptions of On-Line Methods -- Background for Research on Story Comprehension -- The Story Schema -- The Boundary Hypothesis -- Reading Time Analysis by Multiple Regression -- Background for Multiple Regression Analysis -- Results of Reading Time Analysis -- Conclusion -- 11. Thinking-Out-Loud as a Method for Studying Real-Time Comprehension Processes -- The Use of Thinking-Out-Loud Protocols -- Types of Thinking-Out-Loud Tasks -- Sentence-by-sentence Talking -- Selective Talking -- After the Fact Talking -- Examples of Thinking-Out-Loud Data -- Sentence-by-sentence TOL for Simple Stories and Essays -- Question-Asking TOL for Simple Stories -- Related Applications of TOL -- Computer Text Editing -- TOL as Feedback to Writers -- TOL and Metacognitive Awareness -- Why Do TOL Data Produce Varying Results? -- Summary and Conclusions -- Advantages -- Limitations -- 12. Coordinating Discovery and Verification Research -- Naturalistic Observation -- Augmented Clustering