Zoe Ngo
@zoengo.bsky.social
Memory development researcher at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab.
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Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice
Engrams, ensembles of neurons that store memories, exist along a continuum of retrievability. Normally, sensory cues can reactivate a latent engram to…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab.
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A deep dive with Libby Hills and Owen Henkel into why banning and blaming teens about their social media and smartphone use may backfire and, more importantly, prevent us from addressing the root causes of mental health problems among teens today.
🎧Is there a link between social media use and wellbeing in teens?
Libby Hills and Owen Henkel speak with @candiceodgers.bsky.social, who calls for a more careful reading of the evidence. #EdTech boldscience.org/teen-mental-...
Libby Hills and Owen Henkel speak with @candiceodgers.bsky.social, who calls for a more careful reading of the evidence. #EdTech boldscience.org/teen-mental-...
Teen mental health and technology – BOLD
In this episode of EdTechnical, Libby and Owen speak with Candice Odgers about teenagers' social media use and their wellbeing.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A deep dive with Libby Hills and Owen Henkel into why banning and blaming teens about their social media and smartphone use may backfire and, more importantly, prevent us from addressing the root causes of mental health problems among teens today.
The contingency of generalization on memory specificity depends on age and level of abstraction.
Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications
Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The contingency of generalization on memory specificity depends on age and level of abstraction.
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🧠 Meet @zoengo.bsky.social, Developmental Psychologist & Principal Investigator at the @mpib-berlin.bsky.social #LEVANTE site.
Here, she explains just how critical cross-disciplinary collaboration is to her research into memory growth.
Learn more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/levante-welc...
Here, she explains just how critical cross-disciplinary collaboration is to her research into memory growth.
Learn more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/levante-welc...
September 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🧠 Meet @zoengo.bsky.social, Developmental Psychologist & Principal Investigator at the @mpib-berlin.bsky.social #LEVANTE site.
Here, she explains just how critical cross-disciplinary collaboration is to her research into memory growth.
Learn more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/levante-welc...
Here, she explains just how critical cross-disciplinary collaboration is to her research into memory growth.
Learn more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/levante-welc...
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@zoengo.bsky.social, former LIP colleague and now leader of the new Emmy Noether Group RAVEN, is part of the Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE). Congratulations! 👍
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Zoe Ngo part of the 2024 Jacobs Foundation LEVANTE Program
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June 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@zoengo.bsky.social, former LIP colleague and now leader of the new Emmy Noether Group RAVEN, is part of the Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE). Congratulations! 👍
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/awards/zoe-n...
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/awards/zoe-n...
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🚨 We are hiring in Berlin 💫
Me, @zoengo.bsky.social @buchberger.bsky.social and the team are looking a motivated research assistant to contribute to our ongoing study on inference and generalization in 8-14 year olds.
See attached advert for details. Feel free to reach out to me directly.
Me, @zoengo.bsky.social @buchberger.bsky.social and the team are looking a motivated research assistant to contribute to our ongoing study on inference and generalization in 8-14 year olds.
See attached advert for details. Feel free to reach out to me directly.
February 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🚨 We are hiring in Berlin 💫
Me, @zoengo.bsky.social @buchberger.bsky.social and the team are looking a motivated research assistant to contribute to our ongoing study on inference and generalization in 8-14 year olds.
See attached advert for details. Feel free to reach out to me directly.
Me, @zoengo.bsky.social @buchberger.bsky.social and the team are looking a motivated research assistant to contribute to our ongoing study on inference and generalization in 8-14 year olds.
See attached advert for details. Feel free to reach out to me directly.
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Our paper "Memory reactivation generates new, adaptive behaviours that reach beyond direct experience" is now out www.nature.com/articles/s41...! With Annie Rawson, Jill O’Reilly and Helen Barron at MRC BNDU @ndcnoxford.bsky.social 1/6
December 13, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Our paper "Memory reactivation generates new, adaptive behaviours that reach beyond direct experience" is now out www.nature.com/articles/s41...! With Annie Rawson, Jill O’Reilly and Helen Barron at MRC BNDU @ndcnoxford.bsky.social 1/6
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Now out in Psychological Review, with Andre Beukers, Maia Hamin, and Jon Cohen: our model of how episodic memory can support performance on the n-back task, "When working memory may just be working, not memory". Free version here: osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #neuroskyence
November 13, 2023 at 9:39 PM
Now out in Psychological Review, with Andre Beukers, Maia Hamin, and Jon Cohen: our model of how episodic memory can support performance on the n-back task, "When working memory may just be working, not memory". Free version here: osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #neuroskyence
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Striking case of a patient with medial temporal lobe amnesia. He performs at chance in laboratory recognition memory tests, but has nearly perfect recognition accuracy for a real-world experience, with the memories persisting for 15 months!
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Long-term retention of real-world experiences in a patient with profound amnesia
The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is known to be critical for healthy memory function, but patients with MTL damage can, under certain circumstances, dem…
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November 14, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Striking case of a patient with medial temporal lobe amnesia. He performs at chance in laboratory recognition memory tests, but has nearly perfect recognition accuracy for a real-world experience, with the memories persisting for 15 months!
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New paper by LIP colleagues @buchberger.bsky.social, @zoengo.bsky.social, Aaron Peikert, @brandmaier.bsky.social, & @markuswb.bsky.social out now!
#Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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#Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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Estimating statistical power for structural equation models in developmental cognitive science: A tutorial in R - Behavior Research Methods
Determining the compositional structure and dimensionality of psychological constructs lies at the heart of many research questions in developmental science. Structural equation modeling (SEM) provide...
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September 4, 2024 at 8:42 AM
New paper by LIP colleagues @buchberger.bsky.social, @zoengo.bsky.social, Aaron Peikert, @brandmaier.bsky.social, & @markuswb.bsky.social out now!
#Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
#Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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It was our pleasure to host @zoengo.bsky.social at our lab meeting last week. She gave a captivating talk on her new mapping review of memory development. Can't wait to see it all come out.
December 4, 2023 at 5:39 PM
It was our pleasure to host @zoengo.bsky.social at our lab meeting last week. She gave a captivating talk on her new mapping review of memory development. Can't wait to see it all come out.
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Going to SfN? Come hear my talk during what is sure to be an excellent nanosymposium on "Learning and Memory" Sunday morning 8-11am! WCC 150, NANO19 #SfN2023
November 10, 2023 at 8:37 PM
Going to SfN? Come hear my talk during what is sure to be an excellent nanosymposium on "Learning and Memory" Sunday morning 8-11am! WCC 150, NANO19 #SfN2023
Infantile amnesia is due to a reversible retrieval deficit in engram expression - work by my talented labmate Dr. Sarah Power www.science.org/doi/full/10....
November 8, 2023 at 10:06 PM
Infantile amnesia is due to a reversible retrieval deficit in engram expression - work by my talented labmate Dr. Sarah Power www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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🧠📊 We examined longitudinal stability of gray matter measures (cortical thickness, surface area, and volume) across brain regions in ABCD data, also comparing different parcellations. #neurometrics Preprint on OSF: osf.io/rxmn2/ work led by brilliant Sam Parsons
October 30, 2023 at 10:06 AM
🧠📊 We examined longitudinal stability of gray matter measures (cortical thickness, surface area, and volume) across brain regions in ABCD data, also comparing different parcellations. #neurometrics Preprint on OSF: osf.io/rxmn2/ work led by brilliant Sam Parsons
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Happy to see our new work out in NatureAging, suggesting that dopaminergic and noradrenergic nuclei relate to different memory types in older adults.
Great collaboration with @maramather.bsky.social @markuswb.bsky.social & others from
@lipmpib.bsky.social and USC
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Great collaboration with @maramather.bsky.social @markuswb.bsky.social & others from
@lipmpib.bsky.social and USC
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The integrity of dopaminergic and noradrenergic brain regions is associated with different aspects o...
Using multimodal MRI to delineate noradrenergic and dopaminergic nuclei in aging, Dahl et al. found differential associations with episodic and working memory, helping to disentangle the role of the n...
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October 17, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Happy to see our new work out in NatureAging, suggesting that dopaminergic and noradrenergic nuclei relate to different memory types in older adults.
Great collaboration with @maramather.bsky.social @markuswb.bsky.social & others from
@lipmpib.bsky.social and USC
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Great collaboration with @maramather.bsky.social @markuswb.bsky.social & others from
@lipmpib.bsky.social and USC
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Hello Community! The Department of Psychology at San Diego State University invites applications for a developmental scientist at the Assistant Professor level whose research focuses on early attitudes/beliefs about marginalized groups within the context of social justice. #DevSci
October 8, 2023 at 8:04 PM
Hello Community! The Department of Psychology at San Diego State University invites applications for a developmental scientist at the Assistant Professor level whose research focuses on early attitudes/beliefs about marginalized groups within the context of social justice. #DevSci
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Exciting findings on sleep filled delay and age differences in memory generalization from Zoe Ngo. Great kickoff to #ESCOP23
September 7, 2023 at 8:50 AM
Exciting findings on sleep filled delay and age differences in memory generalization from Zoe Ngo. Great kickoff to #ESCOP23
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We are hiring!! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25521 TT assistant prof in the developmental science area, focus on ethnic and/or cultural influences on child development and/or the impact of structural racism on child development (broadly construed!) #devpsyc #psychscisky #neuroskyence
September 5, 2023 at 4:21 PM
We are hiring!! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25521 TT assistant prof in the developmental science area, focus on ethnic and/or cultural influences on child development and/or the impact of structural racism on child development (broadly construed!) #devpsyc #psychscisky #neuroskyence