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D-Index
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5380
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2944

Yuko Munakata publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yuko Munakata sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 124 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Yuko Munakata D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yuko Munakata sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yuko Munakata is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics, with significant attention to Early Childhood Education and Development, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Cultural Differences and Values, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Child and Animal Learning Development, and Mental Health Research Topics.

Their scholarly output includes publications in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychological Science
  • Collabra Psychology
  • Science
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Representative papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include the following:

  • "Active learning: 'Hands-on' meets 'minds-on'" (2021), published in Science
  • "Why Does Cognitive Training Yield Inconsistent Benefits? A Meta-Analysis of Individual Differences in Baseline Cognitive Abilities and Training Outcomes" (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive" (2022), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Same Data Set, Different Conclusions: Preschool Delay of Gratification Predicts Later Behavioral Outcomes in a Preregistered Study" (2020), published in Psychological Science
  • "Executive Functions in Social Context: Implications for Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Supporting Developmental Trajectories" (2021), published in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

Frequent coauthors of Yuko Munakata include:

  • Laura Michaelson
  • Jesse C. Niebaum
  • Ryan M. Guild
  • Sabine Doebel
  • Hilary J. Traut

Their publications demonstrate engagement with methodological and conceptual issues in psychological science, including cognitive training, developmental trajectories, and open scientific practices.

Best Publications

  • Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain

    Randall C. O'Reilly;Yuko Munakata

  • A unified framework for inhibitory control.

    Yuko Munakata;Seth A. Herd;Christopher H. Chatham;Brendan E. Depue

  • Rethinking Infant Knowledge: Toward an Adaptive Process Account of Successes and Failures in Object Permanence Tasks

    Yuko Munakata;James L. McClelland;Mark H. Johnson;Robert S. Siegler

  • Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development

    Yuko Munakata;Laura Michaelson;Jane Barker;Nicolas Chevalier

  • Developing Cognitive Control Three Key Transitions

    Yuko Munakata;Hannah R. Snyder;Christopher H. Chatham

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

    Christopher H. Chatham;Michael J. Frank;Yuko Munakata

  • Graded representations in behavioral dissociations

    Yuko Munakata

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

    J. Bruce Morton;Yuko Munakata

  • Infant perseveration and implications for object permanence theories: A PDP model of the AB task

    Yuko Munakata

  • Processes of change in brain and cognitive development

    Mark H. Johnson;Yuko Munakata

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

    Jane E. Barker;Andrei D. Semenov;Laura Michaelson;Lindsay S. Provan

  • Connectionist models of development

    Yuko Munakata;James L. McClelland

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

    Christopher H. Chatham;Eric D. Claus;Albert Kim;Tim Curran

  • Metacognitive processes in executive control development: The case of reactive and proactive control

    Nicolas Chevalier;Shaina Bailey Martis;Tim Curran;Yuko Munakata

  • All Together Now: When Dissociations Between Knowledge and Action Disappear

    Yuko Munakata;Benjamin E. Yerys

  • Developmental cognitive neuroscience: progress and potential.

    Yuko Munakata;B.J. Casey;Adele Diamond

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

    Nicholas J. Cepeda;Katharine A. Blackwell;Yuko Munakata

  • Hebbian learning and development

    Yuko Munakata;Jason Pfaffly

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

    Laura E. Michaelson;Yuko Munakata

  • Neural inhibition enables selection during language processing

    Hannah R. Snyder;Natalie Hutchison;Erika Nyhus;Tim Curran

  • Delaying gratification depends on social trust.

    Laura Michaelson;Alejandro de la Vega;Christropher H Chatham;Yuko Munakata

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannah R. Snyder
Hannah R. Snyder Brandeis University
Nicolas Chevalier
Nicolas Chevalier University of Edinburgh
Randall C. O'Reilly
Randall C. O'Reilly University of California, Davis
Marie T. Banich
Marie T. Banich University of Colorado Boulder
Tim Curran
Tim Curran University of Colorado Boulder
Benjamin E. Yerys
Benjamin E. Yerys Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Silvia A. Bunge
Silvia A. Bunge University of California, Berkeley
B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University

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