Department of Psychology
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, 38152

Phone: (901) 678-4938
Email: radale / at / memphis.edu

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

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

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. [pdf]

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

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf] [html]

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

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. [pdf] [html]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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.

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

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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

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.

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

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.

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

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)

Grants

Innovation SIST grant, "Learning cognitive science by learning to use software technologies," $4,500. [summary]

Commitee service

Jenny Roche, PhD chair, 2007-

Alan Albright, PhD chair, 2007-

Nick Duran, PhD committee, 2006-

Patrick Jeuniaux, PhD committee, 2006-

Michael Rowe, PhD committee, 2007-

Gina Caucci, PhD committee, 2006-

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

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

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

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

Gwyneth Lewis, Honors thesis committee, 2006-2007

Doris Leeper, Honors thesis committee, 2006-2007

Methodology committee, 2006-

Recruitment committee website development, Fall, 2006

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 Pathology PhD Colloquium, October 20, 2006

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

Panelist, Human and Social Dynamics, National Science Foundation, 2007.

Program Committee Member, The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2007

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

Courses as Instructor

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

Summer, 2004: Co-instructor for "Introduction to Cognitive Science," with Dr. Chris Conway.

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

Fall, 2006: PSYC 3303: Thinking and Cognitive Processes

Spring, 2007: PSYC 7302: Advanced Statistics I

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

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

Courses as Teaching Assistant, during Blesséd 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."