Section: Publications

Richard Serna, Ph.D.

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Psychiatry

Other Affiliation(s):
   Shriver Center

Representative Publications

Serna, R. W., & Perez-Gonzalez. L. A. (in press). Generalized contextual control of conditional discriminations and unreinforced conditional selection. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

Serna, R. W., Kledaras, J. B., Stoddard, L. T., & McIlvane, W. J. (in press). Assessing readiness of individuals with severe intellectual disabilities for computer-assisted instruction and behavioral evaluation. Tiempes de Psicologia.

McIlvane, W. J., Serna, R. W., Dube, W. V., & Stromer, R. L. (1998). Stimulus control topography coherence and stimulus equivalence: Reconciling test outcomes with theory. In J. Leslie & D. E. Blackman (eds.) Issues in experimental and applied analyses of human behavior. Context Press: Reno.

Serna, R. W., Oross, S., & Murphy, N. A. (1998). Nonverbal assessment of line-orientation in individuals with mental retardation. The Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin.

Dube, W. V. & Serna, R. W. (1998). Reevaluation of a programmed method to teach generalized identity matching. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 19, 347-379.

Serna, R. W., Wilkinson, K. M., & McIlvane, W. J. (1998). Blank-comparison assessment of stimulus-stimulus relations in individuals with mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 103, 60-74.

Mackay, H. A., Stromer, R., & Serna, R. W. (1998). Emergent behavior and intellectual functioning: Stimulus classes, generalization and transfer. In S. A. Soraci & W. J. McIlvane (Eds.), Perspectives on Fundamental Processes in Intellectual Functioning: A Survey of Research Approaches (Vol. 1, pp. 287-310). Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

Serna, R. W., Dube, W. V., & McIlvane, W. J. (1997). Assessing same/different judgments in individuals with severe intellectual disabilities: A status report. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 18, 343-368.

Serna, R. W., Jeffery, J. A., & Stoddard, L. T. (1996) Establishing go-left/go-right auditory discrimination baselines in an individual with severe mental retardation. The Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 14, 18-23.

McIlvane, W. J., Dube, W. V., & Serna, R. W. (1996). Analysis of behavioral selection by consequences and its potential contributions to understanding brain-behavior relations. In K. H. Pribham & J. S. King (Eds.), Learning as self organization (pp. 77-100). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stoddard, L. T., Serna, R. W., & McIlvane, W. J. (1994). A note on stimulus control shaping and one-trial learning in two- and three-year-old children. Psychological Record, 44, 289-299.

Soraci, S.A., Stoddard, L.T., Serna, R.W., McIlvane, W.J., & Carlin, M.T. (1994). Auditory spatial location in auditory-visual matching to sample: A preliminary investigation. Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 12, 14-16.

Dube, W. V., Green, G., Serna, R. W. (1993). Auditory successive conditional discrimination and auditory stimulus equivalence classes. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 59, 103-114.

Serna, R. W. & Osborne, J. G. (1993). Free-time as a behavioral consequence in classroom settings: A critical review. Journal of Behavioral Education, 3, 165-186.

Stromer, R., McIlvane, W. J., & Serna, R. W. (1993). Complex stimulus control and equivalence. Psychological Record, 43, 585-598.

Serna, R.W., Stoddard, L.T., & McIlvane, W.J. (1992). Developing auditory stimulus control: A note on methodology. Journal of Behavioral Education, 2, 391-403.

Office: Shriver
Phone: 781-642-0027
E-mail: Richard.Serna@umassmed.edu

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