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| Yuko MunakataSummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Country: USA Publications
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When labels hurt but novelty helps: children's perseveration and flexibility in a card-sorting taskBenjamin E Yerys
University of Denver, USA
Child Dev 77:1589-607. 2006..More children switched to the second rule in the uninformative-label and novel-stimuli conditions than in the basic condition. Implications for theories of cognitive flexibility are discussed...- Developmental cognitive neuroscience: progress and potentialYuko Munakata
Department of Psychology, 345 UCB, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:122-8. 2004.... - Hebbian learning and developmentYuko Munakata
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder, 80309 0345, USA
Dev Sci 7:141-8. 2004..Hebbian learning mechanisms may also play an important role in critical periods during development, and in a number of other developmental phenomena... - Becoming self-directed: abstract representations support endogenous flexibility in childrenHannah R Snyder
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder, Muenzinger D244, 345 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, United States
Cognition 116:155-67. 2010..We interpret these results in terms of the role of abstract representations in reducing selection demands to aid the development of endogenous control... - Choosing our words: retrieval and selection processes recruit shared neural substrates in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortexHannah R Snyder
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 23:3470-82. 2011.... - Neural inhibition enables selection during language processingHannah R Snyder
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:16483-8. 2010..Neural inhibition is key to choosing our words... - A unified framework for inhibitory controlYuko Munakata
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 15:453-9. 2011..These distinctions are crucial for understanding the mechanisms of inhibition and how they can be impaired or improved... - When actions speak louder than words: improving children's flexibility in a card-sorting taskJennifer J Brace
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Psychol Sci 17:665-9. 2006..These findings support theories of perseveration based on competing memory systems, challenge alternative theories, and suggest effective methods for countering prepotent behaviors... - When simple things are meaningful: working memory strength predicts children's cognitive flexibilityKatharine A Blackwell
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 103:241-9. 2009..Even with all possible sources of conflict removed, switchers still responded faster than perseverators to questions about rules, supporting the graded working memory account... - Reasoning about a hidden object after a delay: evidence for robust representations in 5-month-old infantsYuyan Luo
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 603 E Daniel, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Cognition 88:B23-32. 2003..These results provide evidence for robust representations of hidden objects in young infants... - Rich interpretation vs. deflationary accounts in cognitive development: the case of means-end skills in 7-month-old infantsYuko Munakata
Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2155 S Race Street, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Cognition 83:B43-53. 2002..Further, infants demonstrated means-end skills with behaviors that they had not been trained to repeat. Implications for early means-end abilities and for debates surrounding the interpretation of infant behavior are discussed... - More than a matter of getting 'unstuck': flexible thinkers use more abstract representations than perseveratorsMaria Kharitonova
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Dev Sci 12:662-9. 2009..This finding supports an early link between active representations that support switching and abstract representations that support generalization. We interpret this synergy in terms of prefrontal cortical development... - Pupillometric and behavioral markers of a developmental shift in the temporal dynamics of cognitive controlChristopher H Chatham
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:5529-33. 2009..These results demonstrate the need to reconsider the origins of cognitive control and the basis for children's behaviors across domains... - So many options, so little time: the roles of association and competition in underdetermined respondingHannah R Snyder
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 15:1083-8. 2008..We propose a new model governed by both absolute and relative activation levels of alternative responses... - The Role of Representations in Executive Function: Investigating a Developmental Link between Flexibility and AbstractionMaria Kharitonova
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA
Front Psychol 2:347. 2011..We interpret these results in terms of the role that developing prefrontal cortical regions play in processes such as working memory, which can support both flexibility and abstraction... - Active versus latent representations: a neural network model of perseveration, dissociation, and decalageJ Bruce Morton
Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Dev Psychobiol 40:255-65. 2002..The models help to clarify how prefrontal development may lead to advances in flexible thinking... - Familiarity breeds searching: infants reverse their novelty preferences when reaching for hidden objectsJeanne L Shinskey
Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 29208, USA
Psychol Sci 16:596-600. 2005..After seeing objects hidden, infants reached more for familiar than novel objects, in striking contrast to their robust novelty preferences with visible objects. Theoretical implications concerning the origins of knowledge are discussed... - Processes of change in brain and cognitive developmentMark H Johnson
Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7JL, UK
Trends Cogn Sci 9:152-8. 2005..In human development, integration between such streams of processing might occur through the mediation of language... - Why do children perseverate when they seem to know better: graded working memory, or directed inhibition?Nicholas J Cepeda
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:1058-65. 2007..This result poses a challenge for directed inhibition accounts, because nothing needs to be inhibited to answer simple questions that lack conflicting information... - Common mechanisms for working memory and attention: the case of perseveration with visible solutionsJennifer Merva Stedron
University of Denver, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:623-31. 2005..More generally, the simulations demonstrate how common mechanisms can support working memory and attention... - Cognitive development: at the crossroads?Mark H Johnson
Trends Cogn Sci 9:91. 2005
Research Grants
- Representations Yielding Task-Dependent BehaviorYuko Munakata; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Representations Yielding Task-Dependent FlexibilityYuko Munakata; Fiscal Year: 2010..Understanding the basis for such limitations and subsequent developments in cognitive flexibility is thus a central goal for basic science, mental health, and education. ..