Curriculum Vitae
Yuko Munakata
Business Address:
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 345 UCB
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0345
(303)735-5499 (voice)/492-2967 (fax)
http://psych.colorado.edu/˜munakata
Employment
Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2007-present.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2002-2007.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2002-present.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2001-2002.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 1997-2001.
Degrees
Ph.D., Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
Thesis: “Adaptive Processes in Cognitive Change: A Unified Framework for Understanding Infants’ Successes
and Failures in Object Permanence Tasks”. James L. McClelland advisor.
M.S., Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 1993.
B.A. with Honors, with Distinction, Psychology, Stanford University, 1991.
B.S., Symbolic Systems, Stanford University, 1991.
Additional education
McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sci-
ences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996-1997.
Interdisciplinary program in Neural Processes in Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University,
1992-1996.
McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, 1992.
Research interests
Origins of knowledge
Working memory, inhibition, and cognitive control
Neural network models and neural bases of cognitive development
Learning mechanisms and representational change