David C. Rubin, Juanita M. Kreps Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Please note: David has left the "Linguistics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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My main research interest has been in long-term memory, especially for complex (or "real-world") stimuli. This work includes the study of autobiographical memory and oral traditions, as well as prose. I have also studied memory as it is more commonly done in experimental psychology laboratories using lists. In addition to this purely behavioral research, which I plan to continue, I work on memory in clinical populations with the aid of a National Institute of Mental Health grant to study PTSD and on the underlying neural basis of memory the aid of a National Institute of Aging grant to study autobiographical memory using fMRI.

Contact Info:

Office Location:
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5732
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/browse?type=author&value=Rubin%2C+DC https://sites.duke.edu/rubinlab/

Teaching (Fall 2024):

• PSY 450S.01, TRAUMA AND MEMORY Synopsis

  Reuben-Coo 319, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	1974
M.A.	Harvard University	1972
Special Student	Massachusetts Inst. of Technology	1969
BS	Carnegie-Mellon University	1968

Specialties:

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Interests: http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/research/labs/rubinlab

Please refer to the Rubin Lab website


Click here for .pdf links to my publications

My main research interest has been in long-term memory, especially for complex (or "real-world") stimuli. This work includes the study of autobiographical memory and oral traditions, as well as prose. I have also studied memory as it is more commonly done in experimental psychology laboratories using lists. In addition to this purely behavioral research, which I plan to continue, I work on memory in clinical populations with the aid of a National Institute of Mental Health grant to study PTSD and on the underlying neural basis of memory the aid of a National Institute of Aging grant to study autobiographical memory using fMRI.

Keywords:

Acoustic Stimulation • Adaptation, Psychological • Adolescent • Adult • Affect • Age Factors • Aged • Aged, 80 and over • Aging • Aircraft • Amnesia • Amnesia, Anterograde • Amygdala • Analysis of Variance • Anxiety • Anxiety Disorders • Arousal • Association Learning • Attention • Attitude • Auditory Perception • Autobiographical memory • Autobiography as Topic • Basketball • Behavior, Addictive • Brain • Brain Injury, Chronic • Brain Mapping • Case-Control Studies • Cerebral Cortex • Cerebral Infarction • Child • Child Abuse • Child Abuse, Sexual • Child, Preschool • Cognition • Comprehension • Concept Formation • Conditioning, Classical • Craniocerebral Trauma • Cross-Cultural Comparison • Cues • Culture • Cumulative Trauma Disorders • Denial (Psychology) • Denmark • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders • Dissociative Disorders • Dopamine • Drinking • Emotions • Encephalitis • Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe • Episodic memory • Factor Analysis, Statistical • Feeding Behavior • Female • Follow-Up Studies • Forecasting • Form Perception • Functional Laterality • Functional Neuroimaging • Geriatric Assessment • Gyrus Cinguli • Hippocampus • Humans • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted • Imagination • Individual differences • Individuality • Infant • Infant Behavior • Interpersonal Relations • Interview, Psychological • Japan • Judgment • Language • Learning • Life Change Events • Limbic System • Magnetic Resonance Imaging • Male • Memory • Memory Disorders • Memory, Episodic • Mental Recall • Middle Aged • Models, Psychological • Narration • Neocortex • Neural Pathways • Neuropsychological Tests • Neuropsychology • Neurosciences • New York City • Odors • Oxygen • Patient Acceptance of Health Care • Perception • Personality • Personality Inventory • Phonetics • Photic Stimulation • Photography • Prefrontal Cortex • Problem Solving • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales • Psycholinguistics • Psychological Tests • Psychometrics • Psychotherapy • Questionnaires • Reaction Time • Reading • Reality Testing • Recognition (Psychology) • Reference Values • Regression Analysis • Repression, Psychology • Reproducibility of Results • Retention (Psychology) • Retrospective Studies • Reward • Risk Factors • Self Concept • Semantics • Sense of Coherence • Serial Learning • Set (Psychology) • Severity of Illness Index • Sex Factors • Single-Blind Method • Smoking • Soccer • Space Perception • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic • Students • Suggestion • Sweden • Temporal Lobe • Terrorism • Time Factors • Time Perception • Tobacco Use Disorder • Trauma Severity Indices • Treatment Outcome • Turkey • United States • Verbal Behavior • Verbal Learning • Vision Disorders • Visual Perception • Vocabulary • Word Association Tests • Wounds and Injuries • Writing • Young Adult

Curriculum Vitae

Postdocs Mentored

• Christin Ogle (2010 - present)  
• Andrew Butler (2012 - present)  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Rubin, DC, Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes (1995), pp. 385 pages, Oxford University Press (Awarded the American Association of Publishers' Best New Professional/Scholarly Book in Psychology for 1995 and William James Award from American Psychological Association. Paperback edition, 1997.)  [abs]
2. Remembering Our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory, edited by Rubin, DC (1996), pp. 448 pages, Cambridge University Press (Paperback edition.)  [abs]
3. Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research, edited by Wenzel, A; Rubin, DC (2005), pp. 289 pages, American Psychological Association Press (Amy Wenzel did her honors thesis with me. She is now a clinical psychologist and assistant professor.)
4. Rubin, DC; Berntsen, D; Bohni, MK, A memory-based model of posttraumatic stress disorder: evaluating basic assumptions underlying the PTSD diagnosis., vol. 115 no. 4 (October, 2008), pp. 985-1011, American Psychological Association (APA), ISSN 0033-295X [18954211], [doi]  [abs]
5. Rubin, DC; Boals, A; Berntsen, D, Memory in posttraumatic stress disorder: properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and nontraumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms., vol. 137 no. 4 (November, 2008), pp. 591-614, American Psychological Association (APA), ISSN 0096-3445 [18999355], [doi]  [abs]
6. Rubin, DC, The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory., vol. 1 no. 4 (December, 2006), pp. 277-311, SAGE Publications, ISSN 1745-6916 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
7. Daselaar, SM; Rice, HJ; Greenberg, DL; Cabeza, R; LaBar, KS; Rubin, DC, The spatiotemporal dynamics of autobiographical memory: neural correlates of recall, emotional intensity, and reliving., vol. 18 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 217-229, Oxford University Press (OUP) [17548799], [doi]  [abs]
8. Berntsen, D; Rubin, DC, The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms., vol. 44 no. 2 (February, 2006), pp. 219-231, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0005-7967 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
9. Talarico, JM; Rubin, DC, Confidence, not consistency, characterizes flashbulb memories., vol. 14 no. 5 (September, 2003), pp. 455-461, SAGE Publications, ISSN 0956-7976 [12930476], [doi]  [abs]
10. Rubin, DC; Greenberg, DL, Visual memory-deficit amnesia: a distinct amnesic presentation and etiology., vol. 95 no. 9 (April, 1998), pp. 5413-5416, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ISSN 0027-8424 [9560290], [doi]  [abs]
11. Skotko, BG; Rubin, DC; Tupler, LA, H.M.'s personal crossword puzzles: understanding memory and language., Memory, vol. 16 no. 2 (February, 2008), pp. 89-96, ISSN 0965-8211 [18286414], [doi]  [abs]