Sid Horton

School of Psychology

Georgia Institute of Technology

654 Cherry Street

Atlanta, GA 30332-0170

Phone: 404-385-0008

Email: william.horton[at]psych.gatech.edu

Office: G94 JS Coon Building

NOTE: This contact information is out of date. Sid Horton is now on the faculty of Northwestern University and can be reached here: whorton[at]northwestern.edu

Research Interests

My research investigates the processes and memory representations underlying routine language use. Much of my work falls within the domain of pragmatics, the study of the social and contextual factors that affect how people use and understand language. I have carried out this agenda in two parallel domains: one domain concerns the role of common ground and memory processes in language production, while the other relates to the role of extralinguistic information in text processing. Currently, I am extending my research by examining potential age-related changes in language use.

Publications

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

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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

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

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

Gerrig, R.J., & Horton, W.S. (2004). 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. [preprint]

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

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

Posters

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

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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

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. [pdf]