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Zoe Ngo

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Graduate Student

Temple University

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

Funding:
 
NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship, F31, NICHD (Sept 2017 – Sept 2019)
Sponsors: Drs. Nora Newcombe and Ingrid Olson

The development and neural bases of relational memory and pattern separation

Awards & Honors:
 
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award ($1000)
 
Philip J. Bersh Best First-authored Paper Award, Temple University ($1000)
 
Psychonomic Society Graduate Travel Award ($1000)
 
fMRI Training Course Fellowship at University of Michigan, MI
 
International Conference Travel Award ($500), Temple University
 
Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship, Santa Barbara, CA
 
High Distinction, Seton Hall University, NJ
 
Graduate Assistantship, Seton Hall University, NJ
 

Parajon Scholarship, Denison University, OH

Recent Publications:

Ngo, C. T., Horner, A. J., Newcombe, N. S., & Olson, I. R. (in press). Development of holistic episodic recollection. Psychological Science. [Preprint].

Ngo, C. T., Newcombe, N. S., & Olson, I. R. (in press). Gain-loss framing enhances mnemonic discrimination in preschoolers. Child Development. [Preprint]

Ngo, C. T.*, Lin, Y.*, Newcombe, N. S., & Olson, I. R. (in press). Building up and wearing down episodic memory: Mnemonic discrimination and relational binding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Alm, K. H., Ngo, C. T., & Olson, I. R. (in press). Hippocampal signatures of awake targeted memory reactivation. Brain Structure and Function. 

Ngo, C.T., Newcombe N. S., & Olson, I. R. (Submitted). Gain-loss framing enhances mnemonic discrimination in preschoolers. Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/nxq9t/ 

Canada, K., Ngo, C.T., Newcombe, N. S., Geng F., & Riggins, T. (In press). It’s all in the details: Relations between young children’s developing pattern separation abilities and hippocampal subfield volumes. Cerebral Cortex.

Keresztes, A., Ngo, C.T., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Newcombe, N.S. (In press). Hippocampal maturation drives memory from generation to specificity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Ngo, C.T., Alm, K.H., Metoki, A., Hampton, W., Riggins, T.R., Newcombe, N.S., & Olson, I.R. (2017). White matter structural connectivity and episodic memory in early childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Ngo, C.T., Newcombe, N.S., & Olson, I.R. (2017). The Ontogeny of Relational Memory and Pattern Separation. Developmental Science.

Metoki, A., Alm, K.H., Wang, Y., Ngo, C.T., & Olson, I.R. (2017). Never forget a face: white matter connectivity predicts person memory. Brain Structure and Function.

Ngo, C.T., & Lloyd, M.E. (2016). Familiarity Influences on Direct and Indirect Associative Memory for Objects in Scenes. The Quarterly of Experimental Psychology.

Ngo, C.T., Weisberg, S.M., Newcombe, N.S., & Olson, I.R. (2015). The Relation between Navigation Strategy and Associative Memory: An Individual Differences Approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(4), 663-670.

Lloyd, M.E., Hartman, A., Ngo, C.T., Ruser, N., & Miller, J., (2015). Not enough familiarity for fluency: Definitional encoding increases familiarity but does not lead to fluency attribution in associative recognition. Memory & Cognition, 43(1), 39-48.

 
Ongoing Projects:
 
  1. Relational Binding and Item-Level Mnemonic Discrimination across the Lifespan
  2. Relational Binding Contingent on Content Discrimination across the Lifespan
Research Interests:
  • Relational and Episodic Memory
  • Memory Development

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