Rick Dale

About

I am a cognitive scientist in the Department of Communication at UCLA. My research involves quantifying the dynamics of cognition, with a focus on human communication. The work I've been involved in has touched upon language's many levels of complexity: from how it evolved, to how we carry out brief conversations. I am also interested in a wide range of other topics, such as the interface between language and action, cognitive dynamics, and theoretical issues in cognitive science.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Data Mining
• Machine Learning
• Psychology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Physics
• Programming language
• Social psychology
• Communication
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Using mouse cursor tracking to investigate online cognition: Preserving methodological ingenuity while moving toward reproducible science

  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2020 · 65 citations

  Mouse cursor tracking has become a prominent method for characterizing cognitive processes, used in a wide variety of domains of psychological science. Researchers have demonstrated considerable ingenuity in the application of the approach, but the methodology has not undergone systematic analysis to facilitate the development of best practices. Furthermore, recent research has demonstrated effects of experimental design features on a number of mousetracking outcomes. We conducted a systematic r…

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• Body synchrony in triadic interaction

  Royal Society Open Science · 2020 · 51 citations

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  Humans subtly synchronize body movement during face-to-face conversation. In this context, bodily synchrony has been linked to affiliation and social bonding, task success and comprehension, and potential conflict. Almost all studies of conversational synchrony involve dyads, and relatively less is known about the structure of synchrony in groups larger than two. We conducted an optic flow analysis of body movement in triads engaged in face-to-face conversation, and explored a common measure of…

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• Unidimensional and Multidimensional Methods for Recurrence Quantification Analysis with crqa

  The R Journal · 2021 · 45 citations

  Recurrence quantification analysis is a widely used method for characterizing patterns in time series. This article presents a comprehensive survey for conducting a wide range of recurrencebased analyses to quantify the dynamical structure of single and multivariate time series and capture coupling properties underlying leader-follower relationships. The basics of recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) and all its variants are formally introduced step-by-step from the simplest autorecurrence t…

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• Group Coordination Catalyzes Individual and Cultural Intelligence

  Open Mind · 2024-01-01 · 6 citations

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  Abstract A large program of research has aimed to ground large-scale cultural phenomena in processes taking place within individual minds. For example, investigating whether individual agents equipped with the right social learning strategies can enable cumulative cultural evolution given long enough time horizons. However, this approach often omits the critical group-level processes that mediate between individual agents and multi-generational societies. Here, we argue that interacting groups a…

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• BERTs of a feather: Studying inter- and intra-group communication via information theory and language models

  Behavior Research Methods · 2023-11-29 · 6 citations

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Interpersonal Coordination and Embodied Communication

  NSF · $50k · 2009–2012

• Collaborative Research: Action Dynamics as an Index of Learning and Generalization

  NSF · $20k · 2011–2012

• Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Interpersonal Coordination and Embodied Communication

  NSF · $40k · 2011–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Jonathan B. Freeman

  Columbia University

  31 shared

• Nicholas D. Duran

  Arizona State University

  29 shared

• Thomas A. Farmer

  29 shared

• Sarah E. Anderson

  The Ohio State University

  26 shared

• Daniel C. Richardson

  University College London

  22 shared

• Alexia Galati

  22 shared

• Michael J. Spivey

  21 shared

• Alexandra Paxton

  University of Connecticut

  21 shared

Labs

• Co-Mind LabPI

  Conducts research on the cognitive science of communication, focusing on the dynamic coordination of communication and cognition in time.

Awards & honors

• Professor & Mark Allen Itkin Centennial Chair in Communicati…

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