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Personal profile
Research Interests
Processes and memory representations underlying routine language use with the research falling within the domain of pragmatics, the study of the social and contextual factors that affect how people use and understand language and carried out 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.
Education/Academic qualification
Cognitive Psychology, PhD, The University of Chicago
… → 1999
Cognitive Psychology, MA, The University of Chicago
… → 1994
Psychology, BS, Duke University
… → 1991
Research interests
- Cognitive psychology
- Discourse processing
- Innovative and metaphorical language
- Psycholinguistics
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Medicine & Life Sciences
dialogue
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Grants 2006 2012
- 3 Finished
RI/HRI: Coordinating Communication: Visual, Social and Biological Factors in Grounding for Humans and Agents
Carnegie Mellon University, National Science Foundation
10/25/10 → 8/31/12
Project: Research project
HCC/RI: Coordinating Communication: Visual, Social, & Biological Factors in Grounding for Humans and Agents
9/1/07 → 8/31/11
Project: Research project
Partner-specific Memory Associations in Language Use
National Institute of Mental Health
2/1/06 → 1/31/09
Project: Research project
Data storage equipment
Experiments
Research Output 1996 2020
Structural alignment in dialogue and monologue (and what attention may have to do with it)
Ivanova, I., Horton, W. S., Swets, B., Kleinman, D. & Ferreira, V. S., Feb 1 2020, In : Journal of Memory and Language. 110, 104052.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
dialogue
Joints
experiment
Individuality
Reaction Time
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Conceptual Effects of Audience Design in Human–Computer and Human–Human Dialogue
Schmader, C. & Horton, W. S., Feb 17 2019, In : Discourse Processes. 56, 2, p. 170-190 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
dialogue
Computer applications
conversation
Communication
paradigm
4
Citations
(Scopus)
Automated analysis of written narratives reveals abnormalities in referential cohesion in youth at ultra high risk for psychosis
Gupta, T., Hespos, S. J., Horton, W. S. & Mittal, V. A., Feb 1 2018, In : Schizophrenia Research. 192, p. 82-88 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Psychotic Disorders
Verbal Learning
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Schizophrenia
Language
11
Citations
(Scopus)
Individual differences in switching and inhibition predict perspective-taking across the lifespan
Long, M. R., Horton, W. S., Rohde, H. & Sorace, A., Jan 1 2018, In : Cognition. 170, p. 25-30 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Executive Function
life-span
Individuality
Young Adult
young adult
Theories and approaches to the study of conversation and interactive discourse
Horton, W. S., Jan 1 2017, The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes, Second Edition. Taylor and Francis, p. 22-68 47 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Interpersonal Relations
Telephone
conversation
Communication
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