Laboratory Memory and Retention

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Rubin, D. C.  (1976).  The effectiveness of context before, after, and around a missing word.  Perception and Psychophysics, 19, 214-216.

Rubin, D. C.  (1977).  Very long-term memory for prose and verse.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 16, 611-621.  Reprinted in U. Neisser (Ed.), Memory observed: Remembering in natural contexts (1982, pp. 299-310).  San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.  Reprinted in U. Neisser & I. E. Hyman, Jr. (Eds.), Memory observed: Remembering in natural contexts: Second edition. (1999, pp. 383-392).  New York: Worth Publishers. 

Rubin, D. C.  (1978).  A unit analysis of prose memory.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 17, 599-620.

Rubin, D. C.  (1980).  51 properties of 125 words: A unit analysis of verbal behavior.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19, 736-755.

Rubin, D. C., & Olson, M. J.  (1980).  Recall of semantic domains.  Memory and Cognition, 8, 354-366.

Rubin, D. C.  (1982).  On the retention function for autobiographical memory.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 21-38.

Rubin, D. C., & Corbett, S.  (1982).  Adaptation-level theory and the free recall of mixed-frequency lists.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 20, 27-29.

Bacon, E., & Rubin, D. C.  (1983).  Story recall by mentally retarded children.  Psychological Reports, 53, 791-796.

Rubin, D. C.  (1983).  Associative asymmetry, availability, and retrieval.  Memory and Cognition, 11, 83-92.

Rubin, D. C., & Kontis, T. C.  (1983).  A schema for common cents.  Memory and Cognition, 11, 335-341.

Rubin, D. C.  (1985).  Memorability as a measure of processing: A unit analysis of prose and list learning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 114, 213-238.

Rubin, D. C., & Friendly, M.  (1986).  Predicting which words get recalled: Measures of free recall, availability, goodness, emotionality, and pronunciability for 925 nouns.  Memory and Cognition, 14, 79-94.  Abstract reprinted in Cognition and Emotion, (1987), 1, 110-111. 

Rubin, D. C., & Wallace, W. T.  (1989).  Rhyme and reason: Analyses of dual retrieval cues.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 698-709.

Rubin, D. C., Stolzfus, E. R., & Wall, K. L.  (1991).  The abstraction of form in semantic categories.  Memory and Cognition, 19, 1-7.

Rubin, D. C. & Wenzel, A. E. (1996).  One hundred years of forgetting: A quantitative description of retention.  Psychological Review, 103, 734-760. 

Watson, M. E. & Rubin, D. C. (1996).  Spatial imagery preserves temporal order.  Memory, 4, 515-534. 

Braun, K. & Rubin, D. C. (1998).  The spacing effect depends on an encoding deficit, retrieval, and time in working memory: Evidence from once-presented words.  Memory, 6, 37-65.

Rubin, D. C., Rahhal, T. A., & Poon, L. W. (1998).  Things learned in early adulthood are remembered best.  Memory & Cognition, 26, 3-19. 

Rubin, D. C., Hinton, S. & Wenzel, A.  (1999).  The precise time course of retention.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1161-1176.

Rubin, D. C., Burt, C. D. B., & Fifield, S. J.  (2003).  Experimental manipulations of the phenomenology of memory. Memory & Cognition, 31,  877-886. 

Cabeza, R., Prince, S. E., Daselaar, S. M., Greenberg, D. L., Budde, M., Dolcos, F., LaBar, K. S., & Rubin, D. C. (2004).  Brain activity during episodic retrieval of autobiographical and laboratory events:  An fMRI study using a novel photo paradigm.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1583-1594.

Talarico, J. M. & Rubin, D. C.  (2007).  Flashbulb memories are special after all; in phenomenology, not accuracy.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 557-558.

Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C.  (2008).  The reappearance hypothesis revisited: Recurrent involuntary memories after traumatic events and in everyday life.  Memory & Cognition, 36, 449-460.  PMC3044895

Rubin, D. C. & Talarico, J. M.  (2009).  A comparison of dimensional models of emotion: Evidence from emotions, prototypical events, autobiographical memories, and words.  Memory, 17, 802-808.  PMC2784275

Huijbers, W., Pennartz, C. M. A., Rubin, D. C. & Daselaar, S. M.  (2011).  Imagery and retrieval of auditory and visual information: Neural correlates of successful and unsuccessful performance.  Neuropsychologia, 49, 1730-1740. 

Rubin, D. C. & Umanath, S. (2015).  Event memory: A theory of memory for laboratory, autobiographical, and fictional events.  Psychological Review, 122, 1-23. PMC4295926

Butler, A. C., Rice, H. J., Wooldridge, C. L. & Rubin, D. C. (2016).  Visual imagery in autobiographical memory: The role of repeated retrieval in shifting perspective. Consciousness & Cognition, 42, 327-253. PMC4910630.