Research theme: language and social coordination
* back to all articlesBryant, G. A. & Dale, R. (in press). Language, communication, and social cognition. In D. Carlston, K. Johnson & K. Hugenberg (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition. Routledge.
Dale, R. (2024). Complex dynamical systems. In M. C. Frank & A. Majid (Eds.),
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS). MIT Press.
Jiang, Y., Dale, R. & Lu, H. (2024). Transformability, generalizability, but limited diffusibility: comparing global vs. task-specific language representations in deep neural networks.
Cognitive Systems Research,
83, 101184.
Lupyan, G., Contreras Kallens, P. A. & Dale, R. (2024). Information density as a predictor of communication dynamics.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Miao, G. Q., Jiang, Y., Binnquist, A., Steen, F., Dale, R. & Lieberman, M. (2024). Integrative multimodal dynamics of neural and behavioral signals: an fNIRS hyperscanning and deep neural network (DNN) investigation. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey & E. Hazeltine (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 5630-5638). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (full paper poster).
Rosen, Z. P. & Dale, R. (2024). LLMs don't "do things with words" but their lack of illocution can inform the study of human discourse. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey & E. Hazeltine (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2870-2876). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (full paper poster).
Alviar, C., Kello, C. T. & Dale, R. (2023). Multimodal coordination and pragmatic modes in conversation.
Language Sciences,
97, 101524.
Miao, G. Q., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2023). (Mis)align: a simple dynamic framework for modeling interpersonal coordination.
Scientific Reports,
13, 18325.
Rosen, Z. & Dale, R. (2023). BERTs of a feather: studying inter- and intra-group communication via information theory and language models.
Behavior Research Methods.
Miao, G. Q., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2022). A simple linear model for exploring synchrony and complementarity in interpersonal coordination (Preprint no. 8465). In
Preprints of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse.
Coco, M. I., Mønster, D., Leonardi, G., Dale, R. & Wallot, S. (2021). Unidimensional and multidimensional methods for recurrence quantification analysis with crqa.
R Journal,
13, 145-163.
Kodama, K., Shimizu, D., Dale, R. & Sekine, K. (2021). An approach to aligning categorical and continuous time series for studying the dynamics of complex human behavior.
Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement,
12, 614431.
Alviar, C., Dale, R., Dewitt, A. & Kello, C. T. (2020). Multimodal coordination of sound and movement in music and speech.
Discourse Processes,
57, 682-702.
Dale, R., Bryant, G. A., Manson, J. H. & Gervais, M. M. (2020). Body synchrony in triadic interaction.
Royal Society Open Science,
7, 200095.
Alviar, C., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2019). Complex communication dynamics: Exploring the structure of an academic talk.
Cognitive Science,
43, e12718.
Dale, R. (2019). Nomological machines, data science and dynamics.
Newsletter of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences [invited target article; not peer reviewed],
26, 5-9.
Galati, A., Dale, R. & Duran, N. D. (2019). Social and configural effects on the cognitive dynamics of perspective-taking.
Journal of Memory and Language,
104, 1-24.
Oller, D. K., Griebel, U., Iyer, S. N., Jhang, Y., Warlaumont, A. S., Dale, R. & Call, J. (2019). Language origins viewed in spontaneous and interactive vocal rates of human and bonobo infants.
Frontiers in Psychology,
10, 729.
Ransom, T. G., Dale, R., Kreuz, R. J. & Tollefsen, D. P. (2019). How do different types of alignment affect perceived entity status?
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
48, 961-985.
Abney, D. H., Dale, R., Kello, C. T. & Louwerse, M. M. (2018). The bursts and lulls of multimodal interaction: Temporal distributions of behavior reveal differences between verbal and non-verbal communication.
Cognitive Science,
42, 1297-1316.
Coco, M. I., Dale, R. & Keller, F. (2018). Performance in a collaborative search task: the role of feedback and alignment.
Topics in Cognitive Science,
10, 55-79.
Dale, R. & Bhat, H. S. (2018). Equations of mind: Data science for inferring nonlinear dynamics of socio-cognitive systems.
Cognitive Systems Research,
52, 275-290.
Dale, R., Galati, A., Alviar, C., Kallens, P. A. C., Ramirez-Aristizabal, A., Tabatabaeian, M. & Vinson, D. W. (2018). Interacting timescales in perspective-taking.
Frontiers in Psychology,
9, 1278.
Dale, R. & Kello, C. T. (2018). "How do humans make sense?" Multiscale dynamics and emergent meaning.
New Ideas in Psychology,
50, 61-72.
Dale, R. & Spivey, M. J. (2018). Weaving oneself into others: Coordination in conversational systems. In G. Brone & B. Oben (Eds.),
Eye-Tracking in Interaction: Studies on the Role of Eye Gaze in Dialogue (pp. 67-90). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Richardson, M. J., Schmidt, R., Dale, R., Kallen, R. & Raczaszek-Leonardi, J. (2018). Dynamics of joint-action, social coordination and multi-agent activity.
Frontiers in Psychology (edited eBook),
ISBN 978-2-88945-420-4.
Tollefsen, D. P. & Dale, R. (2018). Joint Action and Ecognition. In A. Newen, L. de Bruin & S. Gallagher (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive and Extended (pp. 261-280). Oxford University Press.
Abney, D., Dale, R., Kello, C. T. & Louwerse, M. M. (2017). Burstiness across multimodal human interaction reveals differences between verbal and non-verbal communication. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink & E. Davelaar (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 39-44). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2017). Interpersonal movement synchrony responds to high- and low-level conversational constraints.
Frontiers in Psychology,
8, 1135.
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.
Dale, R., Fusaroli, R., Tylen, K., Raczaszek-Leonardi, J. & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). A recurrent network approach to modeling linguistic interaction. In J. Trueswell, A. Papafragou, D. Grodner & D. Mirman (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 901-906). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2016). Towards integrative dynamic models for adaptive perspective-taking.
Topics in Cognitive Science,
8, 761-779.
Main, A., Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2016). An exploratory analysis of emotion dynamics between mothers and adolescents during conflict discussions.
Emotion,
16, 913-928.
Oller, K., Dale, R. & Griebel, U. (2016). New frontiers in language evolution and development.
Topics in Cognitive Science,
8, 353-360.
Paxton, A. E., Dale, R. & Richardson, D. C. (2016). Social coordination of verbal and nonverbal behaviors. In P. Passos, K. Davids & J. Y. Chow (Eds.), Interpersonal Coordination and Performance in Social Systems (pp. 259-273). New York, NY: Routledge.
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.
Dale, R. (2015). An integrative research strategy for exploring synergies in natural language performance.
Ecological Psychology,
27, 190-201.
Paxton, A., Rodriguez, K. & Dale, R. (2015). PsyGlass: capitalizing on Google Glass for naturalistic data collection.
Behavior Research Methods,
47, 608-619.
Perlman, M., Dale, R. & Lupyan, G. (2015). Iconicity can ground the creation of vocal symbols.
Royal Society Open Science,
2, 150152.
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.
Vinson, D. W., Dale, R., Tabatabaeian, M. & Duran, N. D. (2015). Seeing and believing: social influences on language processing. In R. Mishra, N. Srinivasan & F. Huettig (Eds.),
Attentional and Visual Processes in Language (pp. 197-213). Springer.
Abney, D.H., Paxton, A., Dale, R. & Kello, C. T. (2014). Complexity matching in dyadic conversation.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
143, 2304-2315.
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.
Dale, R., Fusaroli, R., Duran, N. D. & Richardson, D. C. (2014). The self-organization of human interaction. In B. Ross (Ed.),
Psychology of Learning and Motivation (pp. 43-95). Academic Press.
Dale, R. (2014). Language and cognition: Occasions for synthesis, but not surprise.
IEEE CIS AMD Newsletter,
11, 5-6.
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.
Duran, N. D. & Dale, R. (2014). Theory of mind. In Levine, T. R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Deception (pp. 883-886). SAGE Publications.
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.
Paxton, A., Abney, D, Kello, C. T. & Dale, R. (2014). Network analysis of multimodal, multiscale coordination in dyadic problem solving. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane & B. Scassellati (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2735-2740). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2014). Leveraging linguistic content and debater traits to predict debate outcomes. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane & B. Scassellati (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2741-2746). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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.
Richardson, M. J., Dale, R. & Marsh, K. (2014). Complex dynamical systems in social and personality psychology: theory, modeling and analysis. In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd (Eds.),
Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology (pp. 253-282). Cambridge University Press.
Szary, J. & Dale, R. (2014). Familiarity modulates the dynamics of collaborative inhibition in a trivia game. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane & B. Scassellati (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1556-1561). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Tollefsen, D. P., Kreuz, R. J. & Dale, R. (2014). Flavors of "togetherness": Experimental philosophy and theories of joint action. In J. Knobe, T. Lombrozo & S. Nichols (Eds.),
Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy: Volume 1 (pp. 232-252). Oxford University Press.
Duran, N. D. & Dale, R. (2013). Perspective-taking in dialogue as self-organization under social constraints.
New Ideas in Psychology,
32, 131-146.
Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2013). Argument disrupts interpersonal synchrony.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,
66, 2092-2102.
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). Multimodal networks of interpersonal interaction and conversational contexts. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1121-1126). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Szary, J. & Dale, R. (2013). Dyadic cooperation enhances retrieval and recall of crossword solutions. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3492-3497). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Tollefsen, D. P., Dale R. & Paxton, A. (2013). Alignment, transactive memory, and collective cognitive systems.
Review of Philosophy and Psychology,
4, 13164-012.
Tollefsen, D. P., Dale, R. & Olsen, L. (2013). The devil's in the details: Mental institutions and proper engagement.
Cognitive Systems Research,
25/26, 35-39.
Dale, R. (2012). Integrating and extending the distributed approach in cognitive science.
Interaction Studies,
13, 125-137.
Louwerse, M. M., Dale, R., Bard, E. G. & Jeuniaux, P. (2012). Behavior matching in multimodal communication is synchronized.
Cognitive Science,
36, 1404-1426.
Roche, J. M., Dale, R. & Caucci, G. (2012). Doubling up on double meanings: pragmatic alignment.
Language and Cognitive Processes,
27, 1-24.
Tollefsen, D. & Dale, R. (2012). Naturalizing joint action: a process-based approach.
Philosophical Psychology,
25, 385-407.
Dale, R., Kirkham, N. Z. & Richardson, D. C. (2011). The dynamics of reference and shared visual attention.
Frontiers in Psychology,
2.
Dale, R., Richardson, D. C. & Kirkham, N. K. (2011). How two people become a tangram recognition system. In
Proceedings of DUET (Dual Eye-Tracking Workshop).
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.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & Kreuz, R. J. (2011). Listeners invest in an assumed other's perspective despite cognitive cost.
Cognition,
121, 22-40.
Richardson, D. C., Dale, R., Rogers, J. & Ireland, J. (2011). How do 100 people walk a tightrope together? In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher & T. Shipley (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1924-1929). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Riordan, M., Kreuz, R. J. & Dale, R. (2011). Evidence for alignment in computer-mediated text-only environment. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher & T. Shipley (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2411-2416). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Roche, J. M., 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.
Richardson, D. C., Dale, R. & Tomlinson, J. M. (2009). Conversation, gaze coordination, and beliefs about visual context.
Cognitive Science,
33, 1468-1482.
Roche, J. M., 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.
Shockley, K., Richardson, D. C. & Dale, R. (2009). Conversation and coordinative structures.
Topics in Cognitive Science,
1, 305-319.
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 in Humans and Machines (pp. 75-93). Oxford University Press.
Richardson, D. C., Dale, R., Tomlinson, J. & Clark, H. (2008). What eye believe that you can see: Conversation, gaze coordination and visual common ground. In Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (LONDIAL2008).
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.
Warlaumont, A. S. & Dale, R. (2007). The missing chapter: The interaction between behavioral and symbolic inheritance.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
30, 377-378.
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. (2006). Grounding dialogue: eye movements reveal the coordination of attention during conversation and the effects of common ground. In R. Sun (Ed.),
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 691-696). Mahwah, NJ: 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 and what is next? (workshop talk). In R. Sun (Ed.),
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Balcetis, E. & Dale, R. (2005). An exploration of social modulation of syntactic priming. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.),
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 B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 530-535). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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.
Richardson, D. C. & Dale, R. (2004). Looking to understand: The coupling between speakers' and listeners' eye movements and its relationship to discourse comprehension. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1143-1148). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.