Peer-Reviewed Publications
Elliott, A., & Horton, W. S. (2024). Typing speed and fluency as cues to uncertainty in the real-time production of written messages. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 1498-1517.
Gupta, T., Horton, W. S., Haase, C. M., Carol, E. E., & Mittal, V. A. (2023). Clues from caregiver emotional language usage highlight the link between putative social environment and the psychosis-risk syndrome. Schizophrenia Research, 259, 4-10.
Hoyos, C., Horton, W. S., Gentner, D, & Simms, N. (2020). Analogical comparison promotes theory-of-mind development. Cognitive Science, 44, https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12891
Ivanova, I., Horton, W. S., Swets, B., Kleinman, D., & Ferreira, V. S. (2020). Structural alignment in dialogue and monologue (and what attention may have to do with it). Journal of Memory and Language, 110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.104052
Schmader, C., & Horton, W. S. (2019). Conceptual effects of audience design in human-computer and human-human dialogues. Discourse Processes, 56, 170-190.
Gupta, T., Hespos, S. J., Horton, W. S., & Mittal, V. A. (2018). Automatic analysis of written narratives reveals abnormalities in referential cohesion in youth at ultra-high risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 192, 82-88
Long, M. R., Horton, W. S., Rohde, H., & Sorace, A. (2018). Individual differences in switching and inhibition predict perspective-taking across the lifespan. Cognition, 170, 25-30.
Horton, W. S., & Gerrig, R. G. (2016). Revisiting the memory-based processing approach to common ground. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 780-795.
Horton, W. S., & Brennan, S. E. (2016). The role of metarepresentation in the production and comprehension of referring expressions. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1111. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01111.
ojalehto, b., Medin, D., Horton, W. S., Garcia G., S., & Kays G., E. (2015). Seeing cooperation or competition: Ecological interactions in cultural perspectives. Topics in Cognitive Science, 7, 624-645.
Levine, S., & Horton, W. S. (2015). Helping high school students read like experts: Affective evaluation, salience, and literary interpretation. Cognition and Instruction, 33, 125-153.
Brown-Schmidt, S., & Horton, W. S. (2014). The influence of partner-specific memory associations on picture naming: A failure to replicate Horton (2007). PLoS ONE, 9(10): e109035. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109035.
Rohde, H., & Horton, W. S. (2014). Anticipatory looks reveal expectations about discourse relations. Cognition, 133, 667-691.
Horton, W. S. (2014). Individual differences in perspective-taking and field-independence mediate structural persistence in dialog. Acta Psychologica, 150, 41-48.
Hinze, S. R., Slaten, D. G., Horton, W. S., Jenkins, R., & Rapp, D. N. (2014). Pilgrims sailing the Titanic: Plausibility effects on memory of facts and errors. Memory and Cognition, 42, 305-324.
Rapp, D. N., Hinze, S. R., Slaten, D. G., & Horton, W. S. (2014). Amazing stories: Acquiring and avoiding inaccurate information from fiction. Discourse Processes, 51, 50-74.
Horton, W. S. (2013). Character intimacy influences the processing of metaphoric utterances during narrative comprehension. Metaphor and Symbol, 28, 148-166.
Levine, S., & Horton, W. S. (2013). Using affective appraisal to help readers construct literary interpretations. Scientific Study of Literature, 3, 105-136.
Bean, M., Slaten, D. G., Horton, W. S., Murphy, M., & Todd, A., & Richeson, J. (2012). Prejudice concerns and race-based attentional bias: Evidence from eyetracking. Social Psychological & Personality Science, 3, 723-730.
Powers, C., Bencic, R., Horton, W. S., & Beeman, M. (2012). Hemispheric inference priming during comprehension of conversations and narratives. Neuropsychologia, 50, 2577-2583.
Lysander, K., & Horton, W. S. (2012). Conversational grounding in younger and older adults: The effect of partner visibility and referent abstractness. Discourse Processes, 49, 29-60.
Horton, W.S., & Slaten, D. G. (2012). Anticipating who will say what: The influence of speaker-specific memory associations on reference resolution. Memory & Cognition, 40, 113-126.
Kim, M., Horton, W. S., & Bradlow, A. R. (2011) Phonetic convergence in spontaneous conversations as a function of interlocutor language distance. Laboratory Phonology, 2, 125-156.
Gerrig, R. J., Horton, W. S., & Stent, A. (2011). Production and comprehension of unheralded pronouns: A corpus analysis. Discourse Processes, 48, 161-182.
Horton, W. S., Spieler, D. H., & Shriberg, E. (2010). A corpus analysis of patterns of age-related change in conversational speech. Psychology and Aging, 25, 708-713.
Horton, W. S. (2007). The influence of partner-specific memory associations on language production: Evidence from picture naming. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 1114-1139.
Horton, W. S., & Spieler, D. H. (2007). Age-related effects in communication and audience design. Psychology and Aging, 22, 281-290.
Horton, W. S. (2007). Metaphor and readers’ attributions of intimacy. Memory & Cognition, 35, 87-94.
Horton, W. S., & Gerrig, R. J. (2005). The impact of memory demands on audience design during language production. Cognition, 96, 127-142.
Horton, W. S., & Gerrig, R. J. (2005). Conversational common ground and memory processes in language production. Discourse Processes, 40, 1-35.
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.
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.
Gerrig, R. J., & Horton, W. S. (2001). Of texts and toggles: Categorical versus continuous views of communication. Discourse Processes, 32, 81-87.
Keysar, B., Shen, Y., Glucksberg, S., & Horton, W. S. (2000). Conventional language: How metaphorical is it? Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 576-593.
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., 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.
Horton, W. S., & Keysar, B. (1996). When do speakers take into account common ground? Cognition, 59, 91-117.
Book Chapters, Conference Proceedings, etc.
Brustman, Z., & Horton, W. S. (2022). Up close & personal: The effects of psychological distance on moral judgments. (No. 8452). EasyChair. https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/VgMC
Elliott, A. V., & Horton, W. S. (2022). Access to real-time typing shapes perception of a collaborator’s work quality. (No. 8453). EasyChair. https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/S61zm
McCarthy, K. S., Magliano, J. P., Levine, S. R., Elfenbein, A., & Horton, W. S. (2021). Constructing mental models in literary reading: The role of interpretive inferences (pp. 85-118). In D. Kuiken & A. Jacobs (Eds.) Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies. Berlin/New York: Mouton De Gruyter.
Zheng, J., & Horton, W. S. (2021). Emojis and the interpretation of text messages between friends and between acquaintances. (No. 6177). EasyChair. https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/95dH
Elliott, A.V., & Horton, W. S. (2020). Identifying knowledge estimation cues in online writing workspaces. (No. 3843). EasyChair. https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/dST7
Horton, W. S. (2020). Assertion and mindreading. In S. C. Goldberg (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Assertion (pp. 391-414).Oxford University Press.
Horton, W. S. (2017). Theories and approaches to the study of conversation and interactive discourse. In M. F. Schober, D. N. Rapp, & M. A. Britt (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes, 2nd Ed. (pp. 22-68). New York: Routledge.
Horton, W. S. (2017). Review of “Computational models of referring: A study in cognitive science” by K. van Deemter. Language, 93(3), 723-726.
Hoyos, C., Horton, W. S., Gentner, D. (2015). Analogical comparison aids false belief understanding in preschoolers. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 944-949). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Sherman, A., Brang, D., Noble, C., Grabowecky, M., Horton, W., Towle, V. L., Tao, J. X., Suzuki, S. (2014). “On the same wavelength”: Interpersonal alpha synchronization improves visual-motor coordination. Journal of Vision. doi: 10.1167/14.10.300.
Horton, W. S. (2012). Shared knowledge, mutual understanding, and meaning negotiation. In H.-J. Schmid (Ed.), Cognitive pragmatics [Handbook of pragmatics, Vol. 4] (pp. 375-404). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Horton, W. S. (2008). A memory-based approach to common ground and audience design. In I. Kecskes (Ed.), Intention, common ground, and the egocentric speaker-hearer (pp. 189-222). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
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.