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List of works by Yuko Munakata

A developmental window into trade-offs in executive function: the case of task switching versus response inhibition in 6-year-olds

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A unified framework for inhibitory control

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Active versus latent representations: a neural network model of perseveration, dissociation, and decalage.

scientific article published in April 2002

Adaptive control and the avoidance of cognitive control demands across development

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Adaptiveness in proactive control engagement in children and adults

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

All competition is not alike: neural mechanisms for resolving underdetermined and prepotent competition.

scientific article

All together now: when dissociations between knowledge and action disappear

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Becoming self-directed: abstract representations support endogenous flexibility in children

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Beyond personal control: The role of developing self-control abilities in the behavioral constellation of deprivation

scientific article published in January 2017

Challenges to the Violation-of-Expectation Paradigm: Throwing the Conceptual Baby Out With the Perceptual Processing Bathwater?

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Choosing our words: retrieval and selection processes recruit shared neural substrates in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

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Cognitive control reflects context monitoring, not motoric stopping, in response inhibition

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Cognitive development: at the crossroads?

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Common mechanisms for working memory and attention: the case of perseveration with visible solutions

scientific article published in April 2005

Connectionist models of development

scientific article published on 30 July 2003

Converging methods in developmental science: An introduction

scientific article (publication date: 27 February 2002)

Costs and benefits linked to developments in cognitive control.

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Delaying gratification depends on social trust

scientific article published on 19 June 2013

Developing Cognitive Control: Three Key Transitions

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Developmental cognitive neuroscience: progress and potential.

scientific article published in March 2004

Familiarity breeds searching: infants reverse their novelty preferences when reaching for hidden objects

scientific article published in August 2005

Flexible rule use: common neural substrates in children and adults.

scientific article published on 11 February 2012

Getting ready to use control: Advances in the measurement of young children's use of proactive control

scientific article

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Delaying Gratification Likely Does Matter for Later Achievement (A Commentary on Watts, Duncan, & Quan, 2018)

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Graded representations in behavioral dissociations.

scientific article published in July 2001

Group Influences on Engaging Self-Control: Children Delay Gratification and Value It More When Their In-Group Delays and Their Out-Group Doesn't

scientific article published in April 2018

Hebbian learning and development

scientific article published in April 2004

Individual differences in emotion-cognition interactions: emotional valence interacts with serotonin transporter genotype to influence brain systems involved in emotional reactivity and cognitive control

scientific article published on 04 July 2013

Individual differences in the balance of GABA to glutamate in pFC predict the ability to select among competing options

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Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning

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Mechanistic Accounts of Frontal Lobe Development

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Metacognitive processes in executive control development: the case of reactive and proactive control.

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Modes of executive function and their coordination: introduction to the special section.

scientific article published on 15 August 2014

More than a matter of getting 'unstuck': flexible thinkers use more abstract representations than perseverators

scientific article published on July 2009

Myelination Is Associated with Processing Speed in Early Childhood: Preliminary Insights

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Neural inhibition enables selection during language processing.

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Opposite effects of anxiety and depressive symptoms on executive function: the case of selecting among competing options

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Processes of change in brain and cognitive development

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Pupillometric and behavioral markers of a developmental shift in the temporal dynamics of cognitive control

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Reasoning about a hidden object after a delay: evidence for robust representations in 5-month-old infants

scientific article published in July 2003

Rethinking infant knowledge: toward an adaptive process account of successes and failures in object permanence tasks.

scientific article published in October 1997

Rich interpretation vs. deflationary accounts in cognitive development: the case of means-end skills in 7-month-old infants.

scientific article

Same Data Set, Different Conclusions: Preschool Delay of Gratification Predicts Later Behavioral Outcomes in a Preregistered Study

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

So many options, so little control: abstract representations can reduce selection demands to increase children's self-directed flexibility

scientific article published on 31 August 2013

So many options, so little time: the roles of association and competition in underdetermined responding.

scientific article published on December 2008

Something old, something new: a developmental transition from familiarity to novelty preferences with hidden objects.

scientific article

Speed isn't everything: complex processing speed measures mask individual differences and developmental changes in executive control

scientific article published on March 2013

The Role of Representations in Executive Function: Investigating a Developmental Link between Flexibility and Abstraction.

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

The nature and nurture of high IQ: an extended sensitive period for intellectual development

scientific article published in July 2013

The practice of going helps children to stop: the importance of context monitoring in inhibitory control.

scientific article published on 10 February 2014

Time Isn't of the Essence: Activating Goals Rather Than Imposing Delays Improves Inhibitory Control in Children

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Topography of Slow Sigma Power during Sleep is Associated with Processing Speed in Preschool Children

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Trust matters: Seeing how an adult treats another person influences preschoolers' willingness to delay gratification

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Using language to get ready: Familiar labels help children engage proactive control

scientific article published on 9 September 2017

Visual representation in the wild: how rhesus monkeys parse objects

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

What's the difference? Contrasting modular and neural network approaches to understanding developmental variability.

scientific article published in April 2005

When actions speak louder than words: improving children's flexibility in a card-sorting task

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

When labels hurt but novelty helps: children's perseveration and flexibility in a card-sorting task

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

When simple things are meaningful: working memory strength predicts children's cognitive flexibility.

scientific article published on 10 March 2009

Why do children perseverate when they seem to know better: graded working memory, or directed inhibition?

scientific article

Why won't you do what I want? The informative failures of children and models

scientific article published on October 2012