Rick Dale
Curriculum Vitae

Address

Department of Psychology

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN, 38152

Phone: (901) 678-4938

Email: radale@memphis.edu

Website: http://cia.psyc.memphis.edu/rad/

Employment

2006 - present

Assistant Professor of Psychology, The University of Memphis

Education

2001-2006 - Ph.D.

Cornell University, Psychology

2000-2001

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Ph.D. program)

1996-2000 - B.A.

University of Toronto, Linguistics

Research Interests

Language learning and processing; coordination and interaction in learning and communication; dynamical and connectionist models of learning and processing; philosophy of cognitive science

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

Dale, R. (Ed.) (2008). Pluralism and the future of cognitive science. Special issue of Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 20.

Website: http://cia.psyc.memphis.edu/plurality

Journal Articles and Reviews

Spivey, M.J., Anderson, S., & Dale, R. (in press). The phase transition in human cognition. Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computing.

Spivey, M. J., Dale, R., Knoblich, G., Grosjean, M. (in press). Do curved reaching movements emerge from competing perceptions? A reply to van der Wel et al. (2008). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Dale, R., Roche, J., & Duran, N. (in press). Language is complex. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy. (invited article)

Dale, R. (2008). The possibility of a pluralist cognitive science. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 20, 155-179.

Dale, R. (2008). Sloughing ontology: Reply to commentaries. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 20, 251-256.

Dale, R., Roche, J., Snyder, K., & McCall, R. (2008). Exploring action dynamics as an index of paired-associate learning. PLoS ONE, 3, e1728.

McKinstry, C., Dale, R., & Spivey, M.J. (2008). Action dynamics reveal parallel competition in decision making. Psychological Science, 19, 22-24. (corresponding author)

Warlaumont, A.S. & Dale, R. (2007). The missing chapter: The interaction between behavioral and symbolic inheritance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 377-378.

Farmer, T., Cargill, S., Hindy, N., Dale, R., & Spivey, M.J. (2007). Tracking the continuity of language comprehension: Computer-mouse trajectories suggest parallel syntactic processing. Cognitive Science, 31, 889-909.

Balcetis, E. & Dale, R. (2007). There is no naked eye: Higher-order concepts clothe visual perception. Perception, 36, 581-595.

Richardson, D.C., Dale, R., & Kirkham, N. (2007). The art of conversation is coordination: common ground and the coupling of eye movements during dialogue. Psychological Science, 18, 407-413.

Dale, R., Kehoe, C.E. & Spivey, M.J. (2007). Graded motor responses in the time course of categorizing atypical exemplars. Memory and Cognition, 35, 15-28.

Spivey, M.J. & Dale, R. (2006). Continuous temporal dynamics in real-time cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 207-211.

Dale, R. & Spivey, M.J. (2006). Unraveling the dyad: Using recurrence analysis to explore patterns of syntactic coordination between children and caregivers in conversation. Language Learning, 56, 391-430.

Dale, R. & Spivey, M.J. (2005). From apples and oranges to symbolic dynamics: A framework for conciliating notions of cognitive representation. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 26, 317-342.

Dale, R. (2005). Cognitive and behavioral approaches to language acquisition: Conceptual and empirical intersections. Behavior Analyst Today, 5, 336-359.

Richardson, D. C. & Dale, R. (2005). Looking to understand: The coupling between speakers’ and listeners’ eye movements and its relationship to discourse comprehension. Cognitive Science, 29, 39-54.

Dale, R., Richardson, D.C. & Owren, M.J. (2003). Pumping for gestural origins: The well may be rather dry. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 218-219.

Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003). Review of Gary F. Marcus' "The Algebraic Mind." European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 15, 478-480.

Dale, R. & Spivey, M.J. (2002). A linguistic module to integrate the senses, or a house of cards? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 681-682.

Dale, R. (2002). A Pathway to Developmental Psycholinguistics: Review of "Pathways to Language" by K. Karmiloff and A. Karmiloff-Smith. Cognitive Science Society Newsletter, December.

Book Chapters

Christiansen, M.H., Dale, R., & Reali, F. (in press). Connectionist explorations of multiple-cue integration in syntax acquisition.

Richardson, D.C., Dale, R., & Shockley, K. (in press). Synchrony and swing in conversation: Coordination, temporal dynamics, and communication. In G. Knoblich (Ed.), Embodied Communication. Oxford University Press.

Spivey, M., Richardson, D.C., & Dale, R. (in press). Movements of eye and hand in language and cognition. In E. Morsella and J. Bargh (Eds.), The Psychology of Action, Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press.

Richardson, D.C., Dale, R. & Spivey, M.J. (in press). Eye movements in language and cognition. Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics.

Spivey, M.J. & Dale, R. (2005). The continuity of mind: Toward a dynamical account of cognition. In B. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation v.45 (pp. 85-142). Elsevier Academic Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R. (2004). The role of learning and development in language evolution: A connectionist perspective. In K. Oller & D.U. Griebel (Eds.), The evolution of communication systems: A comparative approach (pp. 90-109). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R.A.C. (2003). Language evolution and change. In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), Handbook of brain theory and neural networks (2nd ed., pp. 604-606). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Dale, R.A.C, Ellefson, M.R., & Conway, C.M. (2001). The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies. In A. Cangelosi & D. Parisi (Eds.) Simulating the evolution of language (pp. 165-187). London: Springer-Verlag.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Richardson, D. C., Dale, R., Tomlinson, J., & Clark, H. (2008). What eye believe that you can see: Conversation, gaze coordination and visual common ground. Presented at the 2008 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (LONDIAL2008).

Lupyan, G. & Dale, R. (2008). Form-meaning compositionality derives from social and conceptual diversity. In Proceedings of the 7th Evolution of Language Conference.

Dale, R. (2007). The relationship between decision and action: Simulating response dynamics in categorization. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Richardson, D.C., Matlock, T., Crosby, J.R. & Dale, R. (2006). Figurative, spontaneous, interactive and potentially offensive: Three projects with rich visual and linguistic stimuli. Paper presented at workshop: What have eye movements told us so far, and what is next? In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Farmer, T., Cargill, S., Hindy, N., Dale, R., & Spivey, M.J. (2006). Streaming x,y coordinates imply continuous interaction during on-line sentence processing. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Dale, R., Hindy, N., & Spivey, M.J. (2006). Graded manual responses reveal typicality gradients in lexical categorization. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Richardson, D.C. & Dale, R. (2006). Grounding dialogue: eye movements reveal the coordination of attention during conversation and the effects of common ground. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Reali, F., Dale, R., & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Colorless green ideas sleep furiously revisited: A statistical perspective. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1821-1826). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Balcetis, E. & Dale, R. (2005). An exploration of social modulation of syntactic priming. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 184-189). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Dale, R. & Spivey, M.J. (2005). Categorical recurrence analysis of child language. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 530-535). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2004). Active and passive statistical learning: Exploring the role of feedback in artificial grammar learning and language. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 262-267). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Richardson, D.C. & Dale, R. (2004). Looking to understand: The coupling between speakers’ and listeners’ eye movements and its relationship to discourse comprehension. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1143-1148). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Balcetis, E. & Dale, R. (2003). There is no naked eye: How higher-oder social concepts clothe visual perception. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 109-114). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R.A.C. (2001). Integrating distributional, prosodic and phonological information in a connectionist model of language acquisition. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 220-225). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Organized Symposia

Dale, R. (2006). Coupled communicators: Dynamical approaches to studying coordinated behavior in naturalistic language usage. International Society for Ecological Psychology, Cincinnati, June 23.

Invited Talks

Applications of recurrence quantification analysis in language learning and usage. American Psychological Association, Advanced Training Institute on Nonlinear Methods, University of Cincinnati, June 11, 2008.

Psycholinguistic synchrony. Invited presentation at Cornell’s Anniversary of the Cognitive Science Program. May 2, 2008.

Dynamic cognition-action covariation. Psychology Colloquium, Southern Illinois University, April 30, 2008.

Day-long “Workshop on cross-recurrence analysis for language and conversation.” Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, January 10-11, 2008.

Conversational dynamics in adults and children. Invited address at the American Psychological Association Convention (Divisions 25, 3), San Francisco, August 20, 2007.

Dynamical high-level cognition. The Cayuga Retreat on Behavioral and Cognitive Dynamical Systems, Ithaca, NY, August 6, 2007.

Applications of recurrence quantification analysis in language learning and usage. American Psychological Association, Advanced Training Institute on Nonlinear Methods, University of Cincinnati, June 13, 2007.

Tracking continuous cognition through the dynamics of action. Perceptual-Motor Dynamics Laboratory Colloquium, University of Cincinnati, February 2, 2007.

A tool for exploring behavioral coordination in communication, some results, and some theoretical reflections. Symposium talk at the 5th International Conference on Learning and Development, Bloomington, IN, June 1, 2006.

The evolving intersection between cognitive and behavioral approaches to language acquisition. Shriver Center Colloquium, Waltham, MA, March 3, 2006.

"Mother I'd rather do it together": Exploring syntactic coordination between child and caregiver in language acquistion. Frisem presentation, Stanford, January 28, 2004.

Technical Reports

Dale, R. (2007). Random sentences from a generalized phrase-structure grammar interpreter. arXiv: cs.CL/0702081.

Press

· Nintendo Wiimote, Now a Tool for Psychological Studies. Yahoo! India, March 5, 2008.

· Los Psicólogos También Usan la Wii. Muy Interesante, March 4, 2008.

· Why Negative Campaigns Sometimes Win. ABCnews.com, February 6, 2008.

· Stephen Colbert’s ‘Truthiness’ Scientifically Validated. Scientific Blogging, January 24, 2008.

· Pas Des Yeux. Science Magazine, Editor’s Choice Column, May 11, 2007.

Conference Presentations

Duran, N., Dale, R., & McNamara, D. (2008). Automated detection of coordination between child and caregivers using natural language processing. Society for Text and Discourse, Memphis, TN. (winner: outstanding student paper to advisee)

Jeuniaux, P., Dale, R., & Louwerse, M. (2008). The impact of feedback and context difficulty on language acquisition. Society for Text and Discourse, Memphis, TN. (winner: outstanding young scientist award to advisee)

Jeuniaux, P., Dale, R., & Louwerse, M. (2008). Monkey see, monkey do. A cross-recurrence analysis of how dialogue partners imitate each other’s multimodal behavior. Society for Text and Discourse, Memphis, TN.

Duran, N., & Dale, R. (2008). Lexical processing evident in wiimote trajectories. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington DC.

Roche, J., Dale, R., & Caucci, G. (2008). Sarcastic synchronization: Simultaneous acoustic and pragmatic alignment in pseudo-interaction. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington DC.

Warlaumont, A.S., Oller, D.K., Buder, E., & Dale, R. (2008). Analysis of infant vocalizations using a self-organizing map. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington DC.

Warlaumont, A.S., Oller, D.K., Buder, E., Kozma, R., & Dale, R. (2008). Using self-organizing neural networks to classify and model the perception of infant vocalizations. Child Phonology Conference, Purdue University, IN.

Dale, R. & Conway, C. (2007). Statistical learning set: Emerging biases in the learning of an artificial grammar. Poster to be presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November. Long Beach, CA.

Dale, R. (2006). How coupled is the dyad? Cross-recurrence analysis of child-caregiver interaction. Symposium talk presented at the International Society for Ecological Psychology, June. Cincinnati.

Richardson, D.C. & Dale, R. (2006). Grounding dialogue: Eye movements reveal the coordination of attention during conversation. Symposium talk presented at the International Society for Ecological Psychology, June. Cincinnati.

Richardson, D.C. & Dale, R. (2006). The coupling between conversants' eye movements. Presentation in the Workshop on Eyetracking, Cognition, and Communication at the Second Biennial Conference of Cognitive Science, June. St. Petersburg.

Farmer, T., Cargill, S., Dale, R., Hindy, N. & Spivey, M.J. (2006). Mouse-Tracking the Visual World: Streaming x,y Coordinates Imply Continuous Interaction During Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. Poster to be presented at the 19th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March. University of Pennsylvania.

O'Hora, D. & Dale, R. (2005). Semantic and syntactic bootstrapping: Experimental analyses. Paper presented at the 2005 ABA Annual Convention, May. Chicago.

Dale, R. & Spivey, M.J. (2005). Modeling sequential classes sequentially: A connectionist approach. Paper presented at the 2005 ABA Annual Convention, May. Chicago.

Dale, R. & Spivey, M.J. (2005). Uncovering temporal and structural patterns in complex behavior: Categorical recurrence analysis. Paper presented at the 2005 ABA Annual Convention, May. Chicago.

Dale, R. & Reali, F. (2004). No "One" Is Alone: Comment on Lidz et al. (2003). Poster presented at the Language Universals Symposium, May. Cornell University.

O'Hora, D. & Dale, R. (2004). Syntactic and semantic boostrapping: A relational frame approach. Paper presented at the 2004 ABA Annual Convention, May. Boston.

Dale, R. (2003). From Structure to Function. Paper presented at the First World Conference on ACT, RFT, and the New Behavioral Psychology, August. Linkoeping, Sweden.

Balcetis, E. & Dale, R. (2003). There is no Naked Eye: How Social Context Clothes Visual Perception. Paper presented to the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Annual Meeting, April. Denver, CO.

Dale, R. & Balcetis, E. (2003). E Pluribus Unum: Bridging the Realms of Language and Visual Perception. Poster presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Annual Meeting, April. Denver, CO.

Dale, R. (2003). Rampant Retrodiction: Does a Path Paved by Chomsky Lead to Support for a Relational Frame Theoretic Account of Language? Invited paper to be presented at a symposium at the 2003 ABA Annual Convention, May. San Francisco.

Dale, R. & Nelson, R. (2002). Multiple Constraints on Sino-Japanese Character Recognition: A Model of a First-Grade Japanese Reader. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November. Kansas City, MO.

Balcetis, E. & Dale, R. (2002). Priming Visual Perception by Higher Order Social Concepts. Poster presented at the 25th European Conference on Visual Perception, August. Glasgow, Scotland.

Dale, R., Nelson, R. & Thometz, D. (2002). Multiple Constraints on Sino-Japanese Character Recognition. Poster presented at the 25th European Conference on Visual Perception, August. Glasgow, Scotland.

Dale, R. (2002). Relational Frame Theory and Early Language Learning: Evidence from Outside the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Poster presented at the 2002 ABA Annual Convention, May. Toronto, Canada.

Dale, R. (2002). Reliable Learning by Unreliable Means: The Role of Prosodic and Phonological Cues in Syntax Acquisition. Poster presented at the Cornell Cognitive Studies Symposium on Statistical Learning across Cognition, April. Cornell University.

Thometz, D. & Dale, R. (2002). Sino-Japanese Character Recognition and Multiple Constraints on a Statistical Learner. Poster presented at the Cornell Cognitive Studies Symposium on Statistical Learning across Cognition, April. Cornell University.

Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Multiple-Cue Integration and the Evolution of Languages. Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Language Evolution, March. Harvard University.

Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). The Emergence of Coordinated Phonological and Prosodic Cues for Syntactic Processing. Poster presented at the 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March. CUNY, NY.

Dale, R. & Richardson, D.C. (2002). A Critical Analysis of the Gestural Proto-Language Theory. Poster presented at the Fourth International Conference on Language Evolution, March. Harvard University.

Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R.A.C. (2001). The Role of Phonological and Prosodic Cues in the Acquisition of Syntax: Multiple-Cue Integration in a Connectionist Model. Paper presented at the 14th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March. University of Pennsylvania.

Support

Action dynamics as an index of learning and generalization. National Science Foundation: Perception, Action, and Cognition, $329,382, 2007-2010 (PI)

Conditions guiding coordinative and adaptive dynamics in human communication. National Science Foundation: Human and Social Dynamics, $673,079 (PI)

Honors and Fellowships

Paller-Dallenbach Fellowship, Cornell University, 2005-2006

Graduate Student Research Award, Field of Psychology

Graduate Teaching Award in the Field of Psychology, 2003-2004

RMPA Graduate Paper Award, 2003

Cognitive Science Society NSF Travel Grant, 2005

Cornell University Graduate School Travel Grants (2002, 2003, 2005)

Editorial and Panel Experience

Panelist, Perception Action Cognition, NSF, Spring 2008, Fall 2008.

Panelist, Human and Social Dynamics, NSF, 2007.

Editorial Board

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 2008-

Program Committee Member

The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2007, 2008

Workshop: Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition, 2008
The Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, 2009

I have also contributed ad hoc reviews for:

Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Cognitive Science; Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Philosophical Psychology; National Science Foundation; Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin; Journal of Memory and Language; International Conference on Development and Learning; Advances in Cognitive Psychology; Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS); Memory & Cognition; Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computing

Teaching Experience

Courses as Instructor

Fall, 2003: Instructor for "Intro to Cognitive Science Writing Seminar."

Summer, 2004: Co-instructor for "Introduction to Cognitive Science”

Summer, 2005: Instructor for "Introduction to Cognitive Science."

Fall, 2006, 2007: PSYC 3303: Thinking and Cognitive Processes

Spring, 2007, 2008: PSYC 7302: Advanced Statistics I

Spring, 2007, 2008: PSYC 4305: Mind, Brain, and Intelligence

Fall, 2007: COMP/PSYC 7/8514: Cognitive Science Seminar

Fall, 2008: PSYC 7503: Advanced Cognitive Psychology Seminar

Courses as Teaching Assistant, during graduate school

Fall, 2001: TA for "Psychology and Law."

Spring, 2002: TA for "Psycholinguistics."

Fall, 2002: TA for "Applied Visual Perception."

Spring, 2003: TA for "Psycholinguistics."

Spring, 2004: TA for "Psychology of Music."

Spring, 2005: TA for "Computational Modeling of Cognition."

Local Funding, Service, and Presentations

Grants

Innovation SIST teaching technology grant, "Learning cognitive science by learning to use software technologies," $4,500.

Department/University Service

Undergraduate program evaluation/task force, Fall, 2008

Methodology/statistics committee, 2006-

Recruitment committee website development, Fall, 2006

University IT research advisory board, 2007-

Student Commitee Service

Emily Mathis, MS chair, 2008-

Kristy Snyder, MS chair, 2008-

Makandal Daaga, MS chair, 2008-

Jenny Roche, PhD chair, 2007-

Alan Albright, PhD chair, 2007-

Nick Duran, PhD committee/co-chair, 2006-

Gina Caucci, PhD committee, 2006-

Heather Ramsdell, PhD committee (speech pathology), 2007-

Patrick Jeuniaux, PhD committee, 2006-2008

Michael Rowe, PhD committee, 2007-2008

Roman Ilin, PhD committee (computer science), 2007-2008

Emily Johnson, MA committee (behavioral neuroscience), 2007-2008

Adrienne Studaway, MA committee (clinical psychology), 2006-2007

Gwyneth Lewis, Honors thesis committee, 2006-2007

Doris Leeper, Honors thesis committee, 2006-2007

Invited Local Presentations

Advanced Excel techniques. Cognitive Scientist's Toolkit Workshop, September 7, 2006 (with Dr. Roger S. Taylor)

The dynamics of your right hand reveals details of semantic categorization and other cognitive processes. Cognitive Brown Bag Presentation, October 9, 2006

Uncovering coordinated behavior in real-time language comprehension and acquisition. Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology PhD Colloquium, October 20, 2006

Introduction to neural networks: Some historical and not-so technical reflections. Language Acquisition Research Group, Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology, October 20, 2006

The mouse cursor and the mind. Cognitive Scientist's Toolkit Workshop, November 2, 2006

Introduction to the self-organizing map. Language Acquisition Research Group, Audiology & Speech Pathology, November 10, 2006

Child and caregiver as a coupled system. Cognitive Brown Bag Presentation, April 9, 2007

Hands-on cognitive science and critical thinking: Preliminary explorations in a laboratory component for a cognitive course. Teaching Colloquium, Dept. of Psychology, January 29, 2008

Dynamics of conversation and action, with some clinical reflections. Behavioral Medicine Meeting, Dept. of Psychology, February 22, 2008.

Episodic memory. Cognitive Science Seminar, September 15, 2008.