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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.
Farmer, T. A., Anderson, S. E., Freeman, J. B. & Dale, R. (2016). Coordinating motor actions and language. In P. Pyykkonen Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck & M. Crocker (Eds.), Visually Situated Language Comprehension (pp. 323-357). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Tabatabaeian, M., Dale, R. & Duran, N. (2015). Self-serving dishonest decisions can show facilitated cognitive dynamics. Cognitive Processing, 16, 291-300.
Szary, J., Kello, C. T. & Dale, R. (2015). Memory foraging in a spatial domain. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, J. Yoshimi & P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2326-2331). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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.
Duran, N. D., Nicholson, S. & Dale, R. (2015). Tracking the response dynamics of implicit partisan biases. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, J. Yoshimi & P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 608-613). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Dale, R. (2015). An integrative research strategy for exploring synergies in natural language performance. Ecological Psychology, 27, 190-201.
Tabatabaeian, M., Dale, R. & Duran, N. (2014). Facilitation in dishonesty is subject to task constraints. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1562-1567). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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., Kello, C. T., Street, C. & Richardson, D. C. (2013). Exploring the movement dynamics of deception. Frontiers in Cognitive Science, 4.
Duran, N. D. & Dale, R. (2012). Increased vigilance in monitoring others' mental states during deception. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1518-1523). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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.
Spivey, M. J. & Dale, R. (2011). Eye movements both reveal and influence problem solving. In I. Gilchrist, S. Everling & S. P. Liversedge (Eds.), Handbook on Eye Movements (pp. 551-562). Oxford University Press.
Freeman, J. B., Dale, R. & Farmer, T. A. (2011). Hand in motion reveals mind in motion. Frontiers in Psychology, 2.
Duran, N. D. & Dale, R. (2011). Spatial cognition adapts to social identity. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Dale, R. & Duran, N. D. (2011). The cognitive dynamics of negated sentence verification. Cognitive Science, 35, 983-996.
Dale, R., Duran, N. D. & Roche, J. M. (2011). Dynamics of action during language processing. In R. K. Mishra & N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Language-Cognition Interface: State of the Art (pp. 114-135). Muenchen: LINCOM Europa.
Benesh, N., Fonville, J. B. & Dale, R. (2011). Partial representations of scenes in change blindness: In the eyes and in the hands. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2890-2895). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & McNamara, D. (2010). The action dynamics of overcoming the truth. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 486-491.
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., Richardson, D. C. & Dale, R. (2009). Movements of eye and hand in language and cognition. In E. Morsella, J. Bargh & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), The Psychology of Action, Vol. 2 (pp. 225-249). New York: Oxford University Press.
Spivey, M. J., Anderson, S. & Dale, R. (2009). The phase transition in human cognition. Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computing, 5, 197-220.
Duran, N. D. & Dale, R. (2009). Predictive arm placement in the statistical learning of position sequences. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 893-898). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
McKinstry, C., Dale, R. & Spivey, M. J. (2008). Action dynamics reveal parallel competition in decision making. Psychological Science, 19, 22-24.
Dale, R., Roche, J. M., Snyder, K. & McCall, R. (2008). Exploring action dynamics as an index of paired-associate learning. PLoS ONE, 3, e1728.
Richardson, D. C., Dale, R. & Spivey, M. J. (2007). Eye movements in language and cognition. In M. Gonzalez-Marquez, I. Mittelberg, S. Coulson & M. J. Spivey (Eds.), Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 323-344). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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. (2007). The relationship between decision and action: Simulating response dynamics in categorization. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 911-916). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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.
Spivey, M. J. & Dale, R. (2006). Continuous temporal dynamics in real-time cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 207-211.
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 R. Sun (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 208-213). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Dale, R., Hindy, N. & Spivey, M. J. (2006). Feature-semantic gradients in lexical categorization revealed by graded manual responses. In R. Sun (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1162-1167). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Spivey, M. J. & Dale, R. (2004). 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.