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Zoe Ngo

@zoengo.bsky.social

Memory development researcher at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

533 Followers  |  147 Following  |  2 Posts  |  Joined: 06.09.2023  |  1.5946

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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 toโ€ฆ

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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30.10.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 58    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

18.10.2025 02:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The contingency of generalization on memory specificity depends on age and level of abstraction.

07.10.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿง  Meet @zoengo.bsky.social, Developmental Psychologist & Principal Investigator at the @mpib-berlin.bsky.social #LEVANTE site.ย 

Here, she explains just how critical cross-disciplinary collaboration is to her research into memory growth.

Learn more ๐Ÿ”— jacobsfoundation.org/levante-welc...

05.09.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Zoe Ngo part of the 2024 Jacobs Foundation LEVANTE Program

@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! ๐Ÿ‘
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26.06.2025 11:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿšจ We are hiring in Berlin ๐Ÿ’ซ

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.

19.02.2025 08:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 Oโ€™Reilly and Helen Barron at MRC BNDU @ndcnoxford.bsky.social 1/6

13.12.2024 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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

13.11.2023 21:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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, demโ€ฆ

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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14.11.2024 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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...

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...

04.09.2024 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

04.12.2023 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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, NANO19ย  #SfN2023

10.11.2023 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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....

08.11.2023 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ“Š 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

30.10.2023 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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...

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...

17.10.2023 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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

08.10.2023 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exciting findings on sleep filled delay and age differences in memory generalization from Zoe Ngo. Great kickoff to #ESCOP23

07.09.2023 08:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

05.09.2023 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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