@Zoe_Chi_Ngo

Postdoc research fellow @mpib_berlin, PhD graduate @templeuniversity. Interested in memory development, art, food, and plants.

 Berlin, Germany
mpib-berlin.mpg.de/staff/chi-zoe-ngo
Joined September 2017
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1.Construct and task labels often evolve quickly in psychology, posing challenges to literature integration efforts. One solution is to use methodology as the principle organization of the literature. Our mapping review on memory development did just that: psyarxiv.com/dwz2q/
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Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025
Nora S. Newcombe and Robert Glushko stand together smiling on stage at CogSci 2025. Nora wears the Rumelhart Prize medal around her neck

ALT Nora S. Newcombe and Robert Glushko stand together smiling on stage at CogSci 2025. Nora wears the Rumelhart Prize medal around her neck

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🚨 We are hiring in Berlin 💫 Pls RT 🙏 We @Zoe_Chi_Ngo @e_buchberger @LLuettgau are looking a motivated research assistant to contribute to our ongoing study on inference and generalization in 8-14 year olds. Feel free to reach out to me directly.
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New PI position at SickKids for people interested in neural and glial mechanisms of cognition. Please share widely and apply! Science Careers - jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/… Nature Careers -  nature.com/naturecareers/job…

SCIENTIST/SENIOR SCIENTIST - Molecular and Cellular Basis of Cognition - Toronto (Region), Ontario

Scientist/Senior Scientist focused on examining the molecular and cellular basis of cognition throughout the lifespan.

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This is us! Meet @Zoe_Chi_Ngo from @lip_mpib. She focuses on studying memory development in childhood. Good news: She will head an Emmy Noether Group from 2025. Learn more : 👉youtube.com/watch?v=wqTyAvAU… 👉mpib-berlin.mpg.de/other-hig… #WomenInScience #MaxPlanckandMe #gamification
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Hugely excited that this work with @martin_hebart and @Chris_I_Baker is now out in @NatureHumBehav !!! By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex. nature.com/articles/s41562-0…

Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system

Nature Human Behaviour - Contier et al. show that dimensions are superior to categories at predicting brain responses to visual objects.

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#Announcement: The first #CallForProposals is open for the Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE)! 📢 This global initiative aims to improve our understanding of #LearningVariability.💡 ➡️ For more details on how to apply, visit: bit.ly/3Au1htY
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A new paper from our lab: Dentate gyrus ensembles gate context-dependent neural states and memory retrieval | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… This work was led by Cesar Coelho (postdoc in my lab) and Andrew Mocle (postdoc in @sjo09 lab). A brief 🧵. 1/n

Dentate gyrus ensembles gate context-dependent neural states and memory retrieval

Dentate gyrus context ensembles constrain memory search to context-appropriate associations.

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Check out our review on how the prefrontal cortex integrates memory systems across timescales to guide adaptive behavior! And we detail the many plastic changes observed in PFC with learning and training, from single neurons to brain-wide activity patterns
Christos Constantinidis@c_constan28 Jun 2024
New review article: Timescales of learning in prefrontal cortex nature.com/articles/s41583-0…

Timescales of learning in prefrontal cortex

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The prefrontal cortex is critical for working memory, over a timescale of seconds. In this Review, Miller and Constantinidis examine how the prefrontal cortex...

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Introducing LEVANTE, a project for measuring children's developmental and learning variability around the world! LEVANTE provides a measurement platform with data flowing to an open repository. Call for proposals coming soon from @Foundation_JF. levante-network.org/

Homepage - Levante

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“In early development, children are not very able to lay down long-lasting memories of individual events.” @Zoe_Chi_Ngo talks to Annie Brookman-Byrne about memory growth in children and why neuroscience could shed light on how children remember the past. bold.expert/the-experimental…
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Congratulations @NoraNewcombe 🤗
National Academy of Sciences@theNASciences30 Apr 2024
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 24 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research. Congratulations to our new #NASmembers and welcome to the Academy!
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I’m excited to share a new, long-in-the-making, theoretical perspective piece, written with @cate_hartley in @NatRevPsych. Here, we explore how models of meta-learning may inform our understanding of the developmental process. rdcu.be/dE8nQ 🧵
screenshot of the first page of our article on meta-learning and development

ALT screenshot of the first page of our article on meta-learning and development

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We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our lab @EmoryPsychology in Summer 2024! You could be a LUMeNary ✨ Applications accepted here: staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/1… And feel free to reach out to me!
The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr. Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a full-time Research Specialist to work on studies examining how motivation and emotion influence learning, memory, and brain function across development. The RA will gain experience with all components of the research process, providing excellent preparation for graduate studies. The preferred start date for the position is Summer 2024. A two-year commitment is requested. Application review will take place on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

ALT The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr. Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a full-time Research Specialist to work on studies examining how motivation and emotion influence learning, memory, and brain function across development. The RA will gain experience with all components of the research process, providing excellent preparation for graduate studies. The preferred start date for the position is Summer 2024. A two-year commitment is requested. Application review will take place on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

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✨Highly recommended reading: @ScienceMagazine has published an article on infantile amnesia, featuring the work of @SarahDPower and her colleagues 👉science.org/content/article/…

Are your earliest childhood memories still lurking in your mind—or gone forever?

Studies of “infantile amnesia” find that memory works differently in the developing brain

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🚨new paper🚨 with @LilaDavachi ! CA3 subregion of the hippocampus integrate events based on context, while in parallel, dentate gyrus subregion pattern separates only items close in time and in the same context jneurosci.org/content/44/10/…

Event Integration and Temporal Differentiation: How Hierarchical Knowledge Emerges in Hippocampal...

Everyday life is composed of events organized by changes in contexts, with each event containing an unfolding sequence of occurrences. A major challenge facing our memory systems is how to integrate...

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📣 Excited to share that our paper, “Parallel developmental changes in children’s production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts” has been published in Nature Communications! 🎉 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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We’re hiring!
Ondrej Zika@OndrejZika25 Jan 2024
🚨 1/ We are hiring a research assistant in Berlin @mpib_berlin ! We are a team of six postdocs from MPIB Berlin and UCL (no PI! 🤯) on a voyage to investigate developmental aspects of learning and generalization, looking for someone to help with running the project.
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🚨 1/ We are hiring a research assistant in Berlin @mpib_berlin ! We are a team of six postdocs from MPIB Berlin and UCL (no PI! 🤯) on a voyage to investigate developmental aspects of learning and generalization, looking for someone to help with running the project.
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Our latest, showing how humans and recurrent neural nets can learn statistical information unfolding at multiple timescales rapidly and concurrently!
cybellesmith @neuromatch.social .bsky.social@CybelleSmith17 Jan 2024
Excited to release this preprint with @AnnaSchapiro and @stslab! Humans and recurrent neural nets can learn slow temporal statistics in the presence of fast timescale dependencies. tinyurl.com/mseu44un
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🧵Excited to share a preprint on sleep + memory transformation with co-first author @stf_simpson @briantlevine! Feat: •Controlled real-life event (art tour; N=174) •Testing memory for sequence vs perceptual info @ multiple timepoints up to 1 year •Overnight polysomnography🧠🛌
Controlled real-world memory encoding - an art tour at Baycrest Hospital

ALT Controlled real-world memory encoding - an art tour at Baycrest Hospital

Experiment design: measuring change in sequence and featural memory before and after sleep, and at multiple timepoints thereafter

ALT Experiment design: measuring change in sequence and featural memory before and after sleep, and at multiple timepoints thereafter

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv_neursci12 Jan 2024
Sleep selectively and durably enhances real-world sequence memory biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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