Cognition in Context Lab

If a child gets a low score on an executive function measure, what does that mean? CICLab Director Yuko Munakata, lab alum Sabine Doebel, and colleagues around the world are providing a new answer, as captured in this story featured in the Washington Post:

The Marshmallow Test and other predictors of success have bias built in, researchers say Executive function is a collection of cognitive skills essential to human life, but psychologists now say our tests contain cultural biases.

How much influence do parents really have on their children? Listen to find out more in this new episode of TED Radio Hour featuring CiCLab Professor Yuko Munakata.

Cuts Both Ways There are two sides to every coin — and sometimes our strengths become weaknesses. This hour, TED speakers explore the mixed blessings and volatile flip sides of mental health, parenting and AI.

The CiCLab enjoyed celebrating and sending off Jade Yonehiro (left) and Winnie Zhuang (right), who moved as graduate students with Professor Yuko Munakata from CU Boulder to UC Davis in 2019.

Jade shared her fascinating work as an Open Access Data Analyst for the California Digital Library of the University of California, Office of the President. Winnie presented on the journey that led to her impressive dissertation: “Children’s cognitive control: Measurement, development, and associations with inhibition and mindfulness."

We celebrated Jade and Winnie’s insights and accomplishments, their care and connection with the community, and their recent collaborative publication evaluating a peer-led parenting program: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-023-02580-6

We look forward to following Jade’s continuing open-access work, and to hearing about Winnie’s new projects as a mentor-researcher at the Crown Institute! https://www.colorado.edu/crowninstitute/ Congratulations, Winnie and Jade!