Our latest, showing how humans and recurrent neural nets can learn statistical information unfolding at multiple timescales rapidly and concurrently!

🚨 1/ We are hiring a research assistant in Berlin Max Planck Institute for Human Development ! 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.

We’re hiring!

📣 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/s4146…

🚨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/…

✨Highly recommended reading: Science Magazine has published an article on infantile amnesia, featuring the work of Sarah Power and her colleagues 👉science.org/content/articl…

We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our lab Emory Psychology in Summer 2024! You could be a LUMeNary ✨ Applications accepted here: staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/127467/job And feel free to reach out to me!

I’m excited to share a new, long-in-the-making, theoretical perspective piece, written with Catherine Hartley in Nature Reviews Psychology. Here, we explore how models of meta-learning may inform our understanding of the developmental process. rdcu.be/dE8nQ 🧵

Proud of Erin Morrow for her amazing work on this project! Our findings suggest that unpleasant memories tend to blend together with similar neutral memories in anxious individuals. A riff off a clever memory paradigm by Brice Kuhl Avi Chanales

Congratulations @NoraNewcombe 🤗

“In early development, children are not very able to lay down long-lasting memories of individual events.” Zoe 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-experiment…

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 Jacobs Foundation. levante-network.org

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

A new paper from our lab: Dentate gyrus ensembles gate context-dependent neural states and memory retrieval | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… This work was led by Cesar Coelho (postdoc in my lab) and Andrew Mocle (postdoc in Sheena Josselyn lab). A brief 🧵. 1/n

#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

Hugely excited that this work with Martin Hebart and Chris Baker is now out in Nature Human Behaviour !!! By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex. nature.com/articles/s4156…

This is us! Meet Zoe Ngo from Center for Lifespan Psychology (MPIB, Berlin). 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=wqTyAv… 👉mpib-berlin.mpg.de/other-highligh… #WomenInScience #MaxPlanckandMe #gamification

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/668484/sci… Nature Careers -  nature.com/naturecareers/…

🚨 We are hiring in Berlin 💫 Pls RT 🙏 We Zoe Ngo Elisa Buchberger Lennart Luettgau 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.

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025