WILLIAM S. HORTON III (Sid)

Department of Psychology

Northwestern University

2029 Sheridan Road

Evanston, IL  60208-2710

whorton [at] northwestern.edu

Office: (847) 467-1293

Lab: (847) 467-5025

Current Position

            Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University

Education

Postdoctoral research fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-2005

Supported by an NRSA training grant in Cognitive Aging awarded to the School of Psychology

Postdoctoral research associate, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1999-2003.

Ph.D. in Cognition and Communication, University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, 1999.

M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, 1994

B.S. in Psychology, Duke University, summa cum laude, 1991

Major: Psychology/German

Phi Beta Kappa, 1990

Study abroad, 1990 – Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Grants, Awards, & Honors

Teaching Experience

Research Interests

Cognitive psychology

Psycholinguistics

Processing and representation of common ground in language production

Comprehension of innovative and metaphorical language

Age-related differences in language production

Publications

Horton, W. S., & Keysar, B.  (1996).  When do speakers take into account common ground?  Cognition, 59, 91-117.

Keysar, B., Barr, D. J., & Horton, W. S.  (1998).  The egocentric bias of language use: Insights from a processing approach.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7, 46-50.

Keysar, B., & Horton, W. S.  (1998).  Speaking with common ground: From principles to processes in pragmatics.  A reply to Polichak and Gerrig.  Cognition, 66, 191-198.

Keysar, B., Shen, Y., Glucksberg, S., & Horton, W. S. (2000). Conventional language: How metaphorical is it?  Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 576-593.

Gerrig, R. J., & Horton, W. S. (2001).  Of texts and toggles: Categorical versus continuous views of communication.  Discourse Processes, 32, 81-87.

Horton, W. S., & Gerrig, R. J. (2002).  Speakers' experiences and audience design: Knowing when and knowing how to adjust utterances to addressees.  Journal of Memory and Language, 47, 589-606.

Horton, W. S., & Rapp, D. N. (2003).  Out of sight, out of mind: Occlusion and the accessibility of information in narrative comprehension.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 104-110.

Gerrig, R.J., & Horton, W.S. (2005).  Contextual expressions and common ground.  In H. L. Colston & A. N. Katz (Eds.), Figurative language comprehension: Social and cultural influences (pp. 43-70).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Horton, W. S., & Gerrig, R. J. (2005).  Conversational common ground and memory processes in language production.  Discourse Processes, 40, 1-35.

Horton, W. S., & Gerrig, R. J. (2005).  The impact of memory demands on audience design during language production.  Cognition, 96, 127-142.

Manuscripts

Horton, W. S., & Spieler, D. H.  (under revision).  Age-related effects in communication and audience design. [abstract]

Horton, W. S.  (in preparation).  The influence of partner-specific memory associations on picture naming. [abstract]

Horton, W.S. (1993, October) The effect of privileged information on the description of simple objects.  Presentation at the annual University of Chicago/Northwestern University psychology graduate student conference. 

Horton, W. S., & Keysar, B.  (1994, November). How do speakers use common ground?  Paper presented at the 35^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.

Horton, W. S.  (1998, April).  Perceptual priming in simile comprehension.  Paper presented at the Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.

Horton, W.S. (1998, February).  Perceptual priming in simile comprehension. Presentation at the annual University of Chicago/Northwestern University psychology graduate student conference. 

Gerrig, R. J., & Horton, W. S. (2001, November).  Judgments about common ground in language production.  Paper presented at the 42^nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

Horton, W. S. (2002, March).  Assessing audience design: The role of experience and memory in speakers' adjustments to addressees.  Invited talk.  New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

Horton, W. S. (2003, April).  Conversation and common ground.  Invited talk.  Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 

Spieler, D. H., Horton, W. S., & Shriberg, E. (2004, April).  Language use in the wild: Analyses of conversational speech across the lifespan.  Paper presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference.  Atlanta, GA.

Horton, W. S.  (2005, April).  Partner-specific priming in language production.  Paper presented at the 18^th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.  Tucson, AZ.

Horton, W. S.  (1998, November).  Using perceptual information in simile comprehension.  Poster presented at the 39^th annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas.

Horton, W. S., & Gerrig, R. J. (2000, November).  Can speakers track addressee-specific information in conversation?  Poster presented at the 41^st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans.

Horton, W. S., & Rapp, D. N. (2001, November).  Representing perceptual availability during narrative comprehension.  Poster presented at the 42^nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

Horton, W. S., Metzing, C. A., & Gerrig, R. J. (2002, November). Tracking speakers' use of internal and external information in referential communication. Poster presented at the 43^rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.

Horton, W. S., Metzing, C. A., & Gerrig, R. J. (2003, March).  Coordinating looking with speaking during the production of referring expressions.  Poster presented at the 16^th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.  Boston, MA.

Horton, W. S. & Gerrig, R. J.  (2003, November).  The effect of memory demands on audience design.  Poster presented at the 44^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Vancouver, BC.

Horton, W. S., & Spieler, D. H. (2004, March).  Age-related effects in communication and audience design.  Poster presented at the 17^th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.  College Park, MD.

Horton, W. S., & Spieler, D. H. (2004, April).  Age-related effects in communication and audience design.  Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference.  Atlanta, GA. 

Horton, W. S. (2004, August).  Metaphor and the attribution of intimacy.  Poster presented at the 14^th annual conference for the Society for Text and Discourse.  Chicago, IL.

Horton, W. S., Spieler, D. H., & Hanlin, A. (2004, November).  Speech planning in freely-generated picture descriptions in younger and older adults.  Poster presented at the 45^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Minneapolis, MN.

Horton, W. S. (2005, November).  The influence of partner-specific memory associations on picture naming.  Poster to be presented at the 46^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.  Toronto, ON.

Professional Activities and Service

Member: American Psychological Society, Psychonomic Society (Associate Member), Society for Text and Discourse

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