Rick Dale

Journal Publications and Reviews

Roche, J., Dale, R., Caucci, G. (in press). Doubling up on double meanings: pragmatic alignment. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., & Richardson, D. C. (in press). Nominal cross recurrence as a generalized lag sequential analysis for behavioral streams. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. (special issue on recurrence)

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. (invited article)

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.

Lupyan, G., & Dale, R. (2010). Language structure is partly determined by social structure. PLoS ONE, 5, e8559.

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. (2008). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 251-254.

Wojnowicz, M. T., Ferguson, M. J., Dale, R., & Spivey, M. J. (2009). The self-organization of deliberate attitudes. Psychological Science, 20, 1428-1435.

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.

Shockley, K., Richardson, D. C. & Dale, R. (2009). Conversation and coordinative structures. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 305-319.

Spivey, M.J., Anderson, S., & Dale, R. (2009). The phase transition in human cognition. Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computing, 5, 197-220.

Dale, R., Roche, J., & Duran, N. (2008). Language is complex. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8, 351-362. (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 & 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.

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. (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 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.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Roche, J., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010). The avoidance of ambiguity during conversation: More than mere priming or mimicry? In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 206-211). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, D. K., Dale, R., Richards, J. A., Gilkerson, J., & Dongxin, X. (2010). Vocal interaction dynamics of children with and without autism. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 121-126). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Dale, R & Lupyan, G. (2010). Squiggle: large-scale social emergence of simple symbols. In K. Smith, A. Smith, M. Schouwstra, & B. de Boer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Evolution of Language Conference (pp. 391-392). London: World Scientific.

Roche, J., Dale, R., & Caucci, G. (2009). Pragmatic aligment: The coordination of ironic statements in pseudo-interaction. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2335-2341). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Snyder-Tapp, K. & Dale, R. (2009). Dynamic competition and the cognitive bottleneck. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3052-3057). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

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.

Jeuniaux, P., Dale, R., & Louwerse, M. M. (2009). The role of feedback in learning form-meaning mappings. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1488-1493). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

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 A. Smith, K. Smith, & R. F. Cancho (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Evolution of Language Conference (pp. 464-465). London: World Scientific.

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 (pp. 911-916). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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 (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 Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1162-1167). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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 (pp. 691-696). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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.

Book Chapters

Dale, R., Duran, N. D., & Roche, J. (forthcoming). Action dynamics in language processing. In R. K. Mishra, & N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Language-Cognition Interface: State of the Art. LINCOM Europa.

Spivey, M. J. & Dale, R. (forthcoming). Eye movements both reveal and influence problem solving. I. Gilchrist, S. Everling, & S. P. Liversedge (Eds.), Handbook on Eye Movements. Oxford University Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Dale, R. & Reali, F. (2010). Connectionist explorations of multiple-cue integration in syntax acquisition. In S.P. Johnson (Ed.), Neoconstructivism: The new science of cognitive development (pp. 87-108). New York: Oxford University Press.

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.

Richardson, D, Dale, R. & Shockley, K. (2008) Synchrony and swing in conversation: coordination, temporal dynamics and communication. In I. Wachsmuth, M. Lenzen & G. Knoblich (Eds.), Embodied Communication (pp. 75-93). Oxford University Press.

Richardson, D.C., Dale, R. & Spivey, M.J. (2007). Eye movements in language and cognition. Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics. In M. Gonzalez-Marquez, I. Mittelberg, S. Coulson, & M. J. Spivey, Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 323-344). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

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.

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.

Invited Talks

"Not"s in your mind: Negation creates shifts in cognitive dynamics. NUI Galway, School of Psychology Seminar, January 29, 2010.

How we become a tangram recognition device. Northwestern University Language & Cognition Colloquium, November 9, 2009.

Applications of recurrence quantification analysis in language learning and usage. American Psychological Association, Advanced Training Institute on Nonlinear Methods, University of Cincinnati, June 10, 2009.

Cognition as layering of coordinative structures. Future of Cognitive Science Workshop, University of California, Merced, May 28, 2009.

Embracing the "joints" in cognitive dynamics. Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Kentucky, April 23, 2009.

Cognitive dynamics revealed through action dynamics. Cognitive Science Seminar, Department of Psychology, Tufts University, March 13, 2009.

Measuring psycholinguistic synchrony. School of Psychology Seminar, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 14, 2008.

Wii remote as a psychological tool. Public Presentation, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 12, 2008.

MATLAB for trajectory analysis. Workshop presented at the School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 12, 2008.

Cognitive dynamics revealed through action dynamics. Psychology Colloquium, Washington University, St. Louis, October 22, 2008.

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 acquisition. Frisem presentation, Stanford, January 28, 2004.

Conference Presentations

Roche, J. & Dale, R. (2010). "That's what she said": The effect of emotional prosody on the interpretation of intent during sentence processing. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR.

Riordan, M., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2010). Socially facilitated alignment and novelty in separate channels of communication. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR.

Bard, E., Louwerse, M. M., Dale, R., & Jeuniaux, P. (2010). Alignment all around? Synchronization and imitation in dialogue. Poster presented at the 6th International Workshop on Language Production, Edinburgh, UK.

Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, D. K., Dale, R., Gilkerson, J., Richards, J. A., & Xu, D. (2010). Leader-follower dynamics of adult-child vocal interaction in autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA.

Roche, J., Caucci, G., Dale, R., & Kreuz, R. J. (2009). Conversational puppetry: Priming via pseudo-confederate. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Dale, R. & Duran, N. (2009). Embracing the "joints" in cognitive dynamics. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Tollefsen, D. & Dale, R. (2009). Starting and sustaining joint action. Talk presented at the Joint Attention Conference, Bentley University, Boston, MA.

Dale, R. & Richardson, D. C. (2009). The diagonal recurrence profile. Talk presented at the 3rd Annual Recurrence Plots Symposium, University of Montreal.

Dale, R. (2009). Explanatory pluralism in cognitive science: a consequence of nonlinear dynamics and complexity. Poster presented at the Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Complex Systems in Cognitive science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Roche, J., Dale, R., Farmer, T., & Zevin, J. (2009). An exploration of dialect-driven modulation of spoken-word recognition. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Dale, R., Snyder-Tapp, K., & Mathis, E. (2009). Tracking trajectories in a landscape of learning. Talk presented at the International Conference for Perception and Action, Minneapolis, July 15th.

Dale, R., & Duran, N. (2009). Dynamical characterization of semantic coupling in child-caregiver interaction. Talk presented at the International Conference for Perception and Action, Minneapolis, July 15th.

Louwerse, M. M., Dale, R., Jeuniaux, P., Benesh, N., Watanabe, S., & Bard, E. G. (2009). Mimicry in action: When people imitate in face-to-face conversation. Talk presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Text & Discourse, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Richardson, D. C., Dale, R., & Tomlinson, J. Jr. (2009). Conversation, gaze coordination, and beliefs about visual context. Poster at the City University of New York Sentence Processing Conference, UC Davis.

Duran, N. D., Dale, R., & McNamara, D. S. (2008). Does the arm know when you're lying? In the Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Duran, N. D., Dale, R., & McNamara (2008). The continuous dynamics of false responding. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Duran, N. D., 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. D., & 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.

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

Chair, statistics/software acquisitions, IT research advisory board, 2009-2010
Subject pool coordinator, 2008-current
University IT research advisory board, 2007-2010
Methodology/statistics committee, 2006-current
Undergraduate program evaluation/task force, 2008-2009
Recruitment committee website development, Fall, 2006

Student Committee Service (interdisciplinary/breadth service in parentheses)

Jenny Roche, PhD chair, 2007-current
Alan Albright, MA chair (2007), PhD chair, 2007-current
Emily Mathis, MSGP chair, 2008-2009
Kristy Snyder, MSGP chair, 2008-2010
Makandal Daaga, MSGP chair, 2008-current
Nick Duran, PhD committee/co-chair, 2006-current
Brent Fonville, MSGP chair, 2009-current
Ronni Jupson, Honors thesis chair, 2010-current
Patricia Beaudry, Honors thesis chair, 2010-current

Amy Witherspoon, PhD committee, 2009-current
Matthew Stapleton, MSGP/MAP/PhD committee (clinical), 2008-current
Gina Caucci, MA/PhD committee, 2006-current
Heather Ramsdell, PhD committee (speech pathology), 2007-2008
Kyounghwa Kwon, PhD committee (speech pathology), 2009-current
Patrick Jeuniaux, PhD committee, 2006-2009
Michael Rowe, PhD committee, 2007-2008
Roman Ilin, PhD committee (computer science), 2007-2008
Monica Riordan, PhD committee, 2009-current
Judiann McNiff, MA committee (clinical), 2010-current
Lisa Jobe-Shields, MAP/PhD committee, 2009- current
Nicholas Benesh, MA/MAP/PhD committee, 2008-current
Chanda Murphy, MA committee (IO), 2008-current
Jessie Van Dyke, MA committee (clinical), 2008-2009
Christopher Monahan, MA committee (clinical), 2009
Jessica Skidmore, MA committee (clinical), 2009
Emily Johnson, MA committee, 2007-2008
Adrienne Studaway, MA committee (clinical), 2006-2007
Kate Marshall, MA committee (health and sports sciences), 2009-2010
Courtney Peasant, MA committee (clinical), 2009-current
Gwyneth Lewis, Honors thesis committee, 2006-2007
Doris Leeper, Honors thesis committee, 2006-2007
Sara Jordan, Honors thesis committee, 2009-2010
Candice Burkett, Honors thesis committee, 2010-current

Invited Local Presentations

Bridging mind and world with open dynamical systems. Cognitive Science Colloquium, October 14, 2009.

Evolving a language in an online game. Cognitive Brown Bag Presentation, September 14, 2009.

Cognitive dynamics in action dynamics. Health Science Graduate Seminar Presentation, April 2, 2009.

Cognitive dynamics in action dynamics. Computer Science Colloquium, February 13, 2009.

Coordination and adaptation in communication. Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Colloquium, February 6, 2009 (with Dr. Roger Kreuz).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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