Aging

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Schultz, K. A., Schmitt, F. A., Logue, P. E., & Rubin, D. C.  (1986).  Unit analysis of prose memory in clinical and elderly populations.  Developmental Neuropsychology, 2, 77-87.

Rubin, D. C. & Schulkind, M. D. (1997).  Distribution of important and word-cued autobiographical memories in 20-, 35-, and 70-year-old adults.  Psychology and Aging, 12, 524-535.

Rubin, D. C. & Schulkind, M. D. (1997).  The distribution of autobiographical memories across the lifespan.  Memory & Cognition, 25, 859-866.

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

Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (1998).  Bilingual autobiographical memory in older adult immigrants: A test of cognitive explanations of the reminiscence bump and the linguistic encoding of memories.  Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 437-457.

Rubin, D. C.  (1999).  Frontal-striatal circuits in cognitive aging:  Evidence for caudate involvement.  Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 6, 241-259.

Schulkind, M. D., Hennis, L. K., & Rubin, D. C (1999).  Music, emotion and autobiographical memory: They’re playing your song. Memory & Cognition, 27, 948-955. 

Watson, M. E., Welsh-Bohmer, K. A., Hoffman, J. M., Lowe, V., & Rubin, D. C. (1999).  The neural basis of naming impairments in Alzheimer’s disease revealed through positron emission tomography.  Archive of Clinical Neuropsychology, 14, 347-357.

Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (2001).  Effects of voluntary immigration on the distribution of autobiographical memory over the lifespan.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, S75-S88. 

Fromholt, P., Mortensen, D., Torpdahl, P., Bender, L., Larsen, P., & Rubin, D. C.  (2003).  Life-narrative and word-cued autobiographical memories in centenarians: Comparisons with 80-year old control, depressed, and dementia groups.  Memory, 11, 81-88.

Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (2003).  Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, events.  Memory & Cognition, 31, 1-14. 

Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D.  (2006).  People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: Subjective age across the life span.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 776-780.  PMC3969748.

Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (2009).  The frequency of voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories across the lifespan.  Memory & Cognition, 37, 679-688.  PMC3044938

Rubin, D. C., Berntsen, D., & Hutson, M. (2009).  The normative and the personal life: Individual differences in life scripts and life stories among U.S.A. and Danish undergraduates.  Memory, 17, 54-68. PMC3042895

Janssen, S. M. J. & Rubin, D. C. (2011).  Age effects in cultural life scripts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 291–298.  PMC3972131.

Janssen, S. M. J., Rubin, D. C., & Conway, M. A. (2012).  The reminiscence bump in the temporal distribution of the best football players of all time: Pelé, Cruijff or Maradona?  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 165-178. 

St. Jacques, P. L., Rubin, D. C., & Cabeza, R.  (2012).  Age-related effects on the neural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval: An elaboration deficit underlies reductions in episodic richness.  Neurobiology of Aging, 33, 1298–1310. PMC3084340

Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., Berntsen, D., & Siegler, I. C. (2013). The frequency and impact of exposure to potentially traumatic events over the life course.  Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 426-434.  PMC3958943

Ford, J. H., Rubin, D. C., & Giovanello, K. S. (2014).  Effects of task instruction on autobiographical memory specificity in young and older adults.  Memory, 22, 722-736. 

Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2014).  Cumulative exposure to traumatic events in older adults.  Aging and Mental Health, 18, 316-325.  PMC3944195.

Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2014).  The impact of the developmental timing of trauma exposure on PTSD symptoms and psychosocial functioning among older adults. Developmental Psychology, 49, 2191-2200. PMC3806884

Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2015).  The relation between insecure attachment and posttraumatic stress: Early life versus adulthood traumas.  Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 7, 324-332.  PMC4493437

Rubin, D. C.  (2015). One bump, two bumps, three bumps, four?  Using retrieval cues to divide one autobiographical memory reminiscence bump into many.  Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4, 87-89. 

Koppel, J. & Rubin, D. C. (2016).  Recent advances in understanding the reminiscence bump: The importance of cues in guiding recall from autobiographical memory.  Current Directions, 25, 135-140. PMC4850910.

Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2016) Accounting for posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity with pre- and post-trauma measures: A longitudinal study of older adults. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 272-286. PMC4798242. 

Ford, J.H., Rubin, D.C., & Giovanello, K.S. (2016).  The effects of song familiarity and age on phenomenological characteristics and neural recruitment during autobiographical memory retrieval.  Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 26, 199–210[does not thank grant]