Zoe Ngo

Zoe Ngo attended Denison University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 2010. She then obtained a Master of Science in Experimental Psychology with a Behavioral Neuroscience concentration in 2013 from Seton Hall University. She went on to earn a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience through the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at Temple University in 2019. Her doctoral research focused on memory development in early childhood. Since completing her PhD, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Zoe currently researches the neural bases of memory development across childhood. Zoe is a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow 2022-2024.

Contributions by Zoe

How do children remember experiences?

Zoe Ngo and Pedro Espinosa-Villafranca / 26 May 2026

Articles Development Neuroscience Individual differences

The experimental psychologist observing how children’s memories grow

Annie Brookman-Byrne / 20 June 2024

Interviews Development Neuroscience

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