Main Focus
- Memory development in early childhood
Project
Real-world Applications of Variability in Episodic memory and Neurodevelopment (RAVEN)
Curriculum Vitae
Postdoc, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
PhD, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Grants
Current funding
1. 2025–2031 Jacobs Foundation – Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE)
Memory development in early childhood
2. 2025–2031 German Research Foundation – Emmy Noether Program
Mapping developmental changes in real-world memory to controlled assessments and neural maturation
3. 2023–2027 CIFAR – Seed Grant
Hippocampal stream in rule learning
4. 2023–2027 Jacobs Foundation – Seed Grant
Memory availability versus accessibility in early ontogeny across species
5. 2023–2027 Jacobs Foundation – Seed Grant
Developmental ways to generalization
Past funding
1. 2022–2024 Jacobs Foundation – Research Fellowship
Propellers of learning and memory in early development
2. 2021–2024 German Research Foundation – Individual Research Grant
Charting the neural bases of episodic specificity and generalization in development
3. 2017 - 2019 National Institutes of Health – NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship
The development and neural bases of relational memory and pattern separation
Selected Publications
1. Karjack, S., Newcombe, N. S., & Ngo, C. T. (2025). The dependence of children's generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction. Nature Communications, 16, 8894.
2. Ngo, C. T., Buchberger, E. S., Nguyen, P. T. U, Newcombe, N. S., & Werkle-Bergner, M. (2024). Building a cumulative science of memory development. Developmental Review, 72, 101119.
3. Buchberger, E. S., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Ngo, C. T. (accepted in principle). The process structure of memory abilities in early and middle childhood. Stage 1 Registered Report. Developmental Science.
4. Ngo, C. T.*, Benear, S. L.*, Popal, H., Olson, I. R., & Newcombe, N. S. (2021). Contingency of semantic generalization on episodic specificity varies across development. Current Biology, 31(12), 2690–2697.e2695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.088
5. Ngo, C. T., Horner, A. J., Newcombe, N. S., & Olson, I. R. (2019). Development of holistic episodic recollection. Psychological Science, 30(12), 1696–1706. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619879441
* Authors contributed equally