Yuko Munakata

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Yuko Munakata is affiliated with the following schools: University of Colorado Boulder, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Colorado, University of Denver

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According to Wikipedia, Yuko Munakata is a professor of psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has specialized in developmental cognitive neuroscience, taking a connectionist approach to cognitive development. Her research investigates the processing mechanisms underlying cognitive development, using converging evidence from behavior, computational modeling, and cognitive neuroscience. She also focuses on understanding the prevalence of task-dependent behaviors during the first years of life. Munakata received a B.S. in symbolic systems at Stanford University in 1991 and a PhD in psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 under James McClelland; and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1996–1997. She worked at the University of Denver from 1997–2001, and joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in 2002, but continues to work at DU as an adjunct professor of psychology. Munakata is a member of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and the Center for Neuroscience at CU.

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Yuko Munakata's Published Works

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Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain (2000) (858)
A unified framework for inhibitory control (2011) (506)
Rethinking infant knowledge: toward an adaptive process account of successes and failures in object permanence tasks. (1997) (435)
Processes of change in brain and cognitive development (2005) (297)
Pupillometric and behavioral markers of a developmental shift in the temporal dynamics of cognitive control (2009) (268)
Active versus latent representations: a neural network model of perseveration, dissociation, and decalage. (2002) (264)
Infant perseveration and implications for object permanence theories: A PDP model of the AB task (1998) (259)
Graded representations in behavioral dissociations (2001) (252)
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development (2013) (228)
Developing Cognitive Control (2012) (211)
Connectionist models of development (2003) (197)
Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience (2009) (183)
All Together Now: When Dissociations Between Knowledge and Action Disappear (2001) (151)
Cognitive Control Reflects Context Monitoring, Not Motoric Stopping, in Response Inhibition (2012) (142)
Metacognitive Processes in Executive Control Development: The Case of Reactive and Proactive Control (2015) (130)
Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning (2014) (129)
Speed isn't everything: complex processing speed measures mask individual differences and developmental changes in executive control. (2013) (118)
Developmental cognitive neuroscience: progress and potential (2004) (115)
Hebbian learning and development. (2004) (111)
Neural inhibition enables selection during language processing (2010) (88)
Choosing Our Words: Retrieval and Selection Processes Recruit Shared Neural Substrates in Left Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex (2011) (85)
Becoming self-directed: Abstract representations support endogenous flexibility in children (2010) (83)
When labels hurt but novelty helps: children's perseveration and flexibility in a card-sorting task. (2006) (82)
Trust matters: Seeing how an adult treats another person influences preschoolers' willingness to delay gratification. (2016) (69)
Delaying gratification depends on social trust (2013) (68)
Visual Representation in the Wild: How Rhesus Monkeys Parse Objects (2001) (66)
Common Mechanisms for Working Memory and Attention: The Case of Perseveration with Visible Solutions (2005) (61)
Flexible rule use: Common neural substrates in children and adults (2012) (61)
Myelination Is Associated with Processing Speed in Early Childhood: Preliminary Insights (2015) (60)
Costs and benefits linked to developments in cognitive control. (2014) (56)
Perseverative reaching in infancy: The roles of hidden toys and motor history in the AB task (1997) (56)
When simple things are meaningful: working memory strength predicts children's cognitive flexibility. (2009) (54)
More than a matter of getting 'unstuck': flexible thinkers use more abstract representations than perseverators. (2009) (52)
The practice of going helps children to stop: the importance of context monitoring in inhibitory control. (2014) (51)
Why do children perseverate when they seem to know better: Graded working memory, or directed inhibition? (2007) (51)
Are infants in the dark about hidden objects (2003) (46)
So many options, so little time: The roles of association and competition in underdetermined responding (2008) (44)
Are you listening? Exploring a developmental knowledge-action dissociation in a speech interpretation task (2002) (42)
Challenges to the Violation-of-Expectation Paradigm: Throwing the Conceptual Baby Out With the Perceptual Processing Bathwater? (2000) (42)
The Role of Representations in Executive Function: Investigating a Developmental Link between Flexibility and Abstraction (2011) (42)
When Actions Speak Louder Than Words (2006) (41)
A developmental window into trade-offs in executive function: The case of task switching versus response inhibition in 6-year-olds (2014) (40)
Opposite effects of anxiety and depressive symptoms on executive function: The case of selecting among competing options (2014) (37)
Group Influences on Engaging Self-Control: Children Delay Gratification and Value It More When Their In-Group Delays and Their Out-Group Doesn’t (2018) (36)
Reasoning about a hidden object after a delay: Evidence for robust representations in 5-month-old infants (2003) (35)
Individual Differences in the Balance of GABA to Glutamate in pFC Predict the Ability to Select among Competing Options (2014) (35)
Detecting Transparent Barriers: Clear Evidence Against the Means-End Deficit Account of Search Failures. (2001) (34)
Information Processing Approaches to Development (2007) (33)
Computational cognitive neuroscience of early memory development (2004) (31)
Individual differences in emotion-cognition interactions: emotional valence interacts with serotonin transporter genotype to influence brain systems involved in emotional reactivity and cognitive control (2013) (28)
Topography of Slow Sigma Power during Sleep is Associated with Processing Speed in Preschool Children (2015) (27)
Familiarity Breeds Searching (2005) (26)
Same Data Set, Different Conclusions: Preschool Delay of Gratification Predicts Later Behavioral Outcomes in a Preregistered Study (2020) (24)
Developing Self-Directed Executive Functioning: Recent Findings and Future Directions (2015) (24)
All Competition Is Not Alike: Neural Mechanisms for Resolving Underdetermined and Prepotent Competition (2014) (23)
Getting ready to use control: Advances in the measurement of young children’s use of proactive control (2017) (22)
Time Isn’t of the Essence (2015) (22)
Children's perseveration: attentional inertia and alternative accounts (2003) (22)
The Nature and Nurture of High IQ (2013) (22)
Higher-Level Cognitive Functions and Connectionist Modeling. Developmental and Computational Neuroscience Approaches to Cognition: The Case of Generalization. (2003) (21)
Why won't you do what I want? The informative failures of children and models. (2012) (20)
So many options, so little control: abstract representations can reduce selection demands to increase children's self-directed flexibility. (2013) (19)
Something old, something new: a developmental transition from familiarity to novelty preferences with hidden objects. (2010) (18)
Adaptive control and the avoidance of cognitive control demands across development (2019) (18)
Why Does Cognitive Training Yield Inconsistent Benefits? A Meta-Analysis of Individual Differences in Baseline Cognitive Abilities and Training Outcomes (2021) (18)
Transitions in Executive Function: Insights From Developmental Parallels Between Prospective Memory and Cognitive Flexibility (2015) (17)
Developmental and Computational Approaches to Variation in Working Memory (2008) (15)
Infant perseveration: Rethinking data, theory, and the role of modelling (1998) (13)
Using language to get ready: Familiar labels help children engage proactive control. (2018) (13)
Rich interpretation vs. deflationary accounts in cognitive development: the case of means-end skills in 7-month-old infants (2002) (13)
When it helps to occlude and obscure: 6-month-olds' predictive tracking of moving toys (1996) (13)
The role of prefrontal cortex in perseveration : Developmental and computational explorations (12)
Developing adaptive control: Age-related differences in task choices and awareness of proactive and reactive control demands (2020) (12)
Cognitive development: at the crossroads? (2005) (9)
Group Influences on Children’s Delay of Gratification: Testing the Roles of Culture and Personal Connections (2020) (9)
Discrete Representations in Working Memory : A Hypothesis and Computational Investigations (1999) (9)
Developing Cognitive Control: The Costs and Benefits of Active, Abstract Representations (2013) (9)
Converging methods in developmental science: an introduction. (2002) (8)
Deciding What to Do: Developments in Children’s Spontaneous Monitoring of Cognitive Demands (2020) (8)
Adaptiveness in proactive control engagement in children and adults (2020) (8)
Psychological Function in Computational Models of Neural Networks (2003) (8)
Cultures Crossing: The Power of Habit in Delaying Gratification (2022) (8)
Executive Functions in Social Context: Implications for Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Supporting Developmental Trajectories (2021) (8)
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Delaying Gratification Likely Does Matter for Later Achievement (A Commentary on Watts, Duncan, & Quan, 2018) (2019) (8)
Active learning: "Hands-on" meets "minds-on". (2021) (8)
Connectionist Approaches to Perseveration: Understanding Universal and Task-Specific Aspects of Children's Behavior (2009) (7)
Mechanistic Accounts of Frontal Lobe Development (2013) (6)
Executive Functioning During Infancy and Childhood (2013) (5)
Modeling infants’ perception of object unity: what have we learned? (2002) (5)
Beyond personal control: The role of developing self-control abilities in the behavioral constellation of deprivation (2017) (4)
Insights into mechanisms of development Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives, 29th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, 9–11 October 1998, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (1999) (2)
Understanding and Supporting Inhibitory Control: Unique Contributions From Proactive Monitoring and Motoric Stopping to Children's Improvements With Practice. (2021) (2)
Talking to Ourselves to Engage Control? Testing Developmental Relations Between Self-directed Speech, Cognitive Control and Talkativeness (2017) (2)
Comprar Brain Development and Cognition: A Reader | Mark H. Johnson | 9780631217374 | Wiley (2008) (1)
Brain Maturation and Cognition (2005) (1)
Brain Dovelopement and Cognition (2005) (1)
Computational Neuroscience: From Biology to Cognition (2006) (1)
Why Doesn’t Executive Function Training Improve Academic Achievement? Rethinking Individual Differences, Relevance, and Engagement from a Contextual Framework (2022) (1)
Same dataset, different conclusions: Preschool delay of gratification predicts later behavioral outcomes in a preregistered study (2019) (1)
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences Computational Neuroscience: From Biology to Cognition Article Ref. Code 51 (2001) (1)
The Development of Relational Reasoning: An Eyetracking Analysis of Strategy Use and Adaptation in Children and Adults Performing Matrix Completion (2021) (1)
TRODUCT ION TO SECT ION I I : FRONTAL LOBE DE VELOPMENT (2012) (0)
Summer 6-19-2013 Delaying Gratification Depends on Social Trust (2018) (0)
Self-organization and Development (2005) (0)
Modes of executive function and their coordination: Introduction to the special section (2014) (0)
The prefrontal mechanism underlying inhibitory control: monitoring or stopping? (2010) (0)
Parent Survey of Child Time Use (2015) (0)
Brain Plasticity and Cognition (2005) (0)
Infant perseveration and implications for cognitive development: A neural network model of the AB̄ task (1998) (0)
Unraveling the Nature of Children’s Self-directed Speech: Correlates of Five- and Six-year-olds’ Overt and Partially Covert Speech on Three Tasks (2022) (0)
18 Ser-organization an Developmental Pro cesses : Can Systems (2007) (0)
Perspectives on Development (2005) (0)
Young habits die hard: When hidden toys do not matter to 10-month-olds in the AB̄ task (1996) (0)
Talking to Ourselves t o Engage Control ? Testing Develo pmental Relations Between Self-d ire cted Speech , Cognitive Control a nd Talkativeness (2017) (0)
Proactive control can be encouraged during childhood: Behavioral, ERP, and pupillometric evidence. (2014) (0)
The Relationship between Slow Wave Activity Topography and Speed of Processing in Preschoolers (2013) (0)
Context-monitoring practice can enhance response inhibition as much as motoric-stopping practice in children. (2013) (0)
Environmental and genetic influences on self-directed executive functioning in childhood (2021) (0)
Exploring the Foundations of Infant Cognitive Flexibility: (581822007-001) (2006) (0)
Empowering Families Through Research-Based Museum Exhibits on Child Development: Impacts on Parents and Implications for Researcher- Museum Partnerships (2021) (0)
Quantifying Myelin Patterns and High Density Sleep EEG in Preschool Children: Investigations of Brain Maturation and Function (2013) (0)
So many options: The roles of neural inhibition and abstract representations in selection (2009) (0)
The best is yet to come: The promise of models of developmental disorders (2002) (0)
Computational cognitive neuroscience of early memory development q (2003) (0)

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