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Duran, N. D., Nicholas, S. P. & Dale, R. (in press). The hidden appeal and aversion to political conspiracies as revealed in the response dynamics of partisans. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Vinson, D. W., Engelan, J., Zwaan, R., Matlock, T. & Dale, R. (2017). Implied motion language can influence visual spatial memory. Memory & Cognition, 45, 852-862.
Vinson, D. W., Abney, D. H., Amso, D., Chemero, A., Cutting, J. E., Dale, R., Freeman, J. B., Feldman, L. B., Friston, K. L., Gallagher, S., Jordan, J. S., Mudrik, L., Ondobaka, S., Richardson, D. C., Shams, L., Shiffrar, M. & Spivey, M. J. (2017). Perception, as you make it (commentary on Firestone & Scholl, 2016). Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2017). Interpersonal movement synchrony responds to high- and low-level conversational constraints. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1135.
Cornish, H., Dale, R., Kirby, S. & Christiansen, M. H. (2017). Sequence memory constraints give rise to language-like structure through iterated learning. PLOS ONE, 12, e0168532.
Vinson, D. W., Davis, J. K., Sindi, S. & Dale, R. (2016). Efficient n-gram analysis with cmscu. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 909-921.
Sindi, S. & Dale, R. (2016). Culturomics as a data playground for tests of selection: mathematical approaches to detecting selection in word use. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 405, 140-149.
Oller, K., Dale, R. & Griebel, U. (2016). New frontiers in language evolution and development. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 353-360.
Main, A., Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2016). An exploratory analysis of emotion dynamics between mothers and adolescents during conflict discussions. Emotion, 16, 913-928.
Lupyan, G. & Dale, R. (2016). Why are there different languages? The role of adaptation in linguistic diversity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 649-660.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2016). Towards integrative dynamic models for adaptive perspective-taking. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 761-779.
Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S. & Spivey, M .J. (2016). Synthesis on the horizon: gene-environment interactions and cognition. IEEE CIS AMD Newsletter, 13, 16-18.
Dale, R., Kello, C. T. & Schoenemann, P. T. (2016). Seeking synthesis: The integrative problem in understanding language and its evolution. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 371-381.
Bergmann, T., Dale, R., Sattari, N., Heit, E. & Bhat, H. S. (2016). The interdisciplinarity of collaborations in Cognitive Science. Cognitive Science.
Bergmann, T., Dale, R. & Lupyan, G. (2016). Socio-demographic influences on language structure and change: Not all learners are the same (commentary on Christiansen & Chater). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, 22-23.
Tabatabaeian, M., Dale, R. & Duran, N. (2015). Self-serving dishonest decisions can show facilitated cognitive dynamics. Cognitive Processing, 16, 291-300.
Szary, J., Dale, R., Kello, C. T. & Rhodes, T. (2015). Patterns of interation-dominant dynamics in individual versus collaborative memory foraging. Cognitive Processing, 16, 389-399.
Roche, J. M., Peters, B. & Dale, R. (2015). Your tone says it all: The processing and interpretation of affective language. Speech Communication, 66, 47-64.
Perlman, M., Dale, R. & Lupyan, G. (2015). Iconicity can ground the creation of vocal symbols. Royal Society Open Science, 2, 150152.
Paxton, A., Rodriguez, K. & Dale, R. (2015). PsyGlass: capitalizing on Google Glass for naturalistic data collection. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 608-619.
Fusaroli, R., Perlman, M., Mislove, A., Paxton, A., Matlock, T. & Dale, R. (2015). Timescales of massive human entrainment. PLOS ONE, 10, e0122742.
Dale, R. (2015). An integrative research strategy for exploring synergies in natural language performance. Ecological Psychology, 27, 190-201.
Abney, D. H., Paxton, A., Dale, R. & Kello, C. T. (2015). Movement dynamics reflect a functional role for weak coupling and role structure in dyadic problem solving. Cognitive Processing, 16, 325-332.
Reich, C. M., Berman, J. S., Dale, R. & Levitt, H. M (2014). Verbal synchrony in psychotherapy. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 33, 481-494.
Hart, P. & Dale, R. (2014). With or without you: The positive and negative influence of retail companions. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 21, 780-787.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & Richardson, D. C. (2014). A mass assembly of associative mechanisms: a dynamical systems account of natural social interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37.
Dale, R. (2014). Language and cognition: Occasions for synthesis, but not surprise. IEEE CIS AMD Newsletter, 11, 5-6.
Coco, M. I. & Dale, R. (2014). Cross-recurrence quantification analysis of categorical and continuous time series: an R package. Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, 5.
Abney, D.H., Paxton, A., Dale, R. & Kello, C. T. (2014). Complexity matching in dyadic conversation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 2304-2315.
Abney, D. H., Dale, R., Yoshimi, J. K., Kello, C. T., Tylen, K. & Fusaroli, R. (2014). Joint perceptual decision-making: A case study in explanatory pluralism. Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 5.
Tollefsen, D. P., Dale, R. & Olsen, L. (2013). The devil's in the details: Mental institutions and proper engagement. Cognitive Systems Research, 35-39.
Tollefsen, D. P., Dale R. & Paxton, A. (2013). Alignment, transactive memory, and collective cognitive systems. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 4, 13164-012.
Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2013). Frame-differencing methods for measuring bodily synchrony in conversation. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 329-343.
Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2013). Argument disrupts interpersonal synchrony. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 2092-2102.
O'Hora., D., Dale, R., Piiroinen, P. & Connolly, F. (2013). Local dynamics in decision making: The evolution of preference within and across decisions. Scientific Reports, 3.
O'Hora, D., Tyndall, I. T., McMorrow, M. & Dale, R. (2013). Using action dynamics to assess competing stimulus control during stimulus equivalence testing. Learning & Behavior, 41, 256-270.
Freeman, J. B. & Dale, R. (2013). Assessing bimodality to detect the presence of a dual cognitive process. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 83-97.
Duran, N. D. & Dale, R. (2013). Perspective-taking in dialogue as self-organization under social constraints. New Ideas in Psychology, 32, 131-146.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R., Kello, C. T., Street, C. & Richardson, D. C. (2013). Exploring the movement dynamics of deception. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 4.
Dale, R. & Vinson, D. W. (2013). The observer's observer's paradox. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 25, 303-322.
Dale, R. & Duran, N. D. (2013). Dealing with complexity differently: from interaction-dominant dynamics to theoretical plurality. Ecological Psychology, 25, 248-255.
Tollefsen, D. & Dale, R. (2012). Naturalizing joint action: a process-based approach. Philosophical Psychology, 25, 385-407.
Roche, J. M., Dale, R. & Caucci, G. (2012). Doubling up on double meanings: pragmatic alignment. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 1-24.
Olney, A. M., Dale, R. & D'Mello, S. K. (2012). The world within Wikipedia: An ecology of mind. Information, 3, 229-255.
Louwerse, M. M., Dale, R., Bard, E. G. & Jeuniaux, P. (2012). Behavior matching in multimodal communication is synchronized. Cognitive Science, 36, 1404-1426.
Dale, R. (2012). Integrating and extending the distributed approach in cognitive science. Interaction Studies, 13, 125-137.
Dale, R. & Lupyan, G. (2012). Understanding the origins of morphological diversity: the linguistic niche hypothesis. Advances in Complex Systems, 15, 1150017/1-1150017/16.
Dale, R., Duran, N. D. & Morehead, J. R. (2012). Prediction during statistical learning, and implications for the implicit/explicit divide. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8, 196-209.
D'Mello, S. K., Dale, R. & Graesser, A. C. (2012). Disequilibrium in the mind, disharmony in the body. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 362-374.
Freeman, J. B., Dale, R. & Farmer, T. A. (2011). Hand in motion reveals mind in motion. Frontiers in Psychology, 2.
Fonville, J. B. & Dale, R. (2011). Learning where it counts: an ecological argument for online education. International Journal of Learning Technology, 6, 251-262.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & Kreuz, R. J. (2011). Listeners invest in an assumed other's perspective despite cognitive cost. Cognition, 121, 22-40.
Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S. & Richardson, D. C. (2011). Nominal cross recurrence as a generalized lag sequential analysis for behavioral streams. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 21, 1153-1161.
Dale, R., Kirkham, N. Z. & Richardson, D. C. (2011). The dynamics of reference and shared visual attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 2.
Dale, R. & Duran, N. D. (2011). The cognitive dynamics of negated sentence verification. Cognitive Science, 35, 983-996.
Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, K., Buder, E., Dale, R. & Kozma, R. (2010). Data-driven automated acoustic analysis of human infant vocalizations using a neural network tool. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127, 2563-2577.
Spivey, M. J., Dale, R., Knoblich, G. & Grosjean, M. (2010). Do curved reaching movements emerge from competing perceptions? A reply to van der Wel et al (2009). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 251-254.
Lupyan, G. & Dale, R. (2010). Language structure is partly determined by social structure. PLoS ONE, 5, e8559.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & McNamara, D. (2010). The action dynamics of overcoming the truth. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 486-491.
Dale, R. (2010). Critique of radical embodied cognitive science. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 31, 127-140.
Wojnowicz, M. T., Ferguson, M. J., Dale, R. & Spivey, M. J. (2009). The self-organization of explicit attitudes. Psychological Science, 20, 1428-1435.
Spivey, M. J., Anderson, S. & Dale, R. (2009). The phase transition in human cognition. Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computing, 5, 197-220.
Shockley, K., Richardson, D. C. & Dale, R. (2009). Conversation and coordinative structures. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 305-319.
Richardson, D. C., Dale, R. & Tomlinson, J. M. (2009). Conversation, gaze coordination, and beliefs about visual context. Cognitive Science, 33, 1468-1482.
Dale, R., Dietrich, E. & Chemero, A. (2009). Explanatory pluralism in cognitive science. Cognitive Science, 33, 739-742.
McKinstry, C., Dale, R. & Spivey, M. J. (2008). Action dynamics reveal parallel competition in decision making. Psychological Science, 19, 22-24.
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. M., Snyder, K. & McCall, R. (2008). Exploring action dynamics as an index of paired-associate learning. PLoS ONE, 3, e1728.
Dale, R., Roche, J. M. & Duran, N. (2008). Language is complex. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8, 351-362.
Warlaumont, A. S. & Dale, R. (2007). The missing chapter: The interaction between behavioral and symbolic inheritance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 377-378.
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.
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.
Dale, R., Kehoe, C. E. & Spivey, M. J. (2007). Graded motor responses in the time course of categorizing atypical exemplars. Memory & Cognition, 35, 15-28.
Balcetis, E. & Dale, R. (2007). Conceptual set as a top-down constraint on visual object identification. Perception, 36, 581-595.
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.
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. & 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. (2004). Cognitive and behavioral approaches to language acquisition: Conceptual and empirical intersections. Behavior Analyst Today, 5, 336-359.
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 Marcus' "The Algebraic Mind". European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 15, 478-480.
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.
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.