Prose, Poetry, & Stories

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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., Olson, E. H., Richter, M., & Butters, N.  (1981).  Memory for prose in Korsakoff and schizophrenic populations.  International Journal of Neuroscience, 13, 81-85.

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

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.

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.

Kelly, M. H., & Rubin, D. C.  (1988).  Natural rhythmic patterns in English verse: Evidence from child counting-out rhymes.  Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 718-740.

Hyman, I. E., Jr., & Rubin D. C.  (1990).  Memorabeatlia: A naturalistic study of long-term memory.  Memory and Cognition, 18, 205-214. 

Zervakis, J. & Rubin, D. C. (1998).  Memory and learning for a novel written style.  Memory & Cognition, 26, 754-767. 

Zervakis, J. & Rubin, D. C. (2002).  Production and recognition bias of stylistic sentences using a story reading task.  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31, 107-130.