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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Akira Miyake is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States and specializes in psychology and neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and social psychology.

Miyake's work covers a range of topics, particularly focusing on behavioral health and interventions, mind wandering and attention, perfectionism, procrastination, and anxiety studies. Additional areas of research include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, cognitive processes, neural and behavioral psychology studies, death anxiety and social exclusion, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect," 2021, published in Psychological Science
  • "Individual differences in task-unrelated thought in university classrooms," 2021, published in Memory & Cognition
  • "Interpolated testing and content pretesting as interventions to reduce task-unrelated thoughts during a video lecture," 2022, published in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • "Toward a Holistic Approach to Reducing Academic Procrastination With Classroom Interventions," 2022, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Mutual implications of procrastination research in adults and children for theory and intervention," 2024, published in Nature Reviews Psychology

Miyake frequently publishes in venues such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology, Psychological Science, Memory & Cognition, and Nature Reviews Psychology.

They have collaborated with multiple coauthors, notably including Nicholas P. Carruth, Michael J. Kane, John Lurquin, Bridget A. Smeekens, and Han Zhang.

In 2005, Akira Miyake was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.

    Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman;Michael J. Emerson;Alexander H. Witzki

  • The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions: Four General Conclusions

    Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman

  • Models of Working Memory: Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control

    Akira Miyake;Priti Shah

  • The relations among inhibition and interference control functions: a latent-variable analysis.

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake

  • Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Susan E. Young;John C. DeFries

  • Unity and diversity of executive functions: Individual differences as a window on cognitive structure.

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake

  • Not All Executive Functions Are Related to Intelligence

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Robin P. Corley;Susan E. Young

  • The separability of working memory resources for spatial thinking and language processing: an individual differences approach.

    Priti Shah;Akira Miyake;Akira Miyake

  • How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning, and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis.

    Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman;David A. Rettinger;Priti Shah

  • A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect

    Martin S. Hagger;Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis

  • Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches.

    Hannah R. Snyder;Akira Miyake;Benjamin L. Hankin

  • Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation

    Akira Miyake;Lauren E. Kost-Smith;Noah D. Finkelstein;Steven J. Pollock

  • Variation in working memory

    Andrew R. A. Conway;Christopher Jarrold;Michael J. Kane;Akira Miyake

  • Models of Working Memory

    Akira Miyake;Priti Shah

  • Individual Differences in Second-Language Proficiency Does Musical Ability Matter?

    L. Robert Slevc;Akira Miyake

  • Behavioral disinhibition: liability for externalizing spectrum disorders and its genetic and environmental relation to response inhibition across adolescence.

    Susan E. Young;Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Erik G. Willcutt

  • A capacity approach to syntactic comprehension disorders: making normal adults perform like aphasic patients

    Akira Miyake;Patricia A. Carpenter;Marcel Adam Just

  • The role of inner speech in task switching: A dual-task investigation

    Michael J Emerson;Akira Miyake

  • Developmental Trajectories in Toddlers’ Self-restraint Predict Individual Differences in Executive Functions 14 Years Later: A Behavioral Genetic Analysis

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;JoAnn L. Robinson;John K. Hewitt

  • Predicting Word Reading and Comprehension with Executive Function and Speed Measures Across Development: A Latent Variable Analysis

    Micaela E. Christopher;Akira Miyake;Janice M. Keenan;Bruce Pennington

Frequent Co-Authors

Kentaro Uesugi
Kentaro Uesugi Stanford University
Priti Shah
Priti Shah University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John K. Hewitt
John K. Hewitt University of Colorado Boulder
Michael J. Kane
Michael J. Kane University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Tiffany A. Ito
Tiffany A. Ito University of Colorado Boulder
Marcel Adam Just
Marcel Adam Just Carnegie Mellon University
Erik G. Willcutt
Erik G. Willcutt University of Colorado Boulder
John C. DeFries
John C. DeFries University of Colorado Boulder

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