Chi Ngo

Chi Ngo is a Research Fellow and Head of the Emmy Noether Group RAVEN at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, focusing on memory development in early childhood and lifespan cognition rhythms through the RHYME project.

Her educational background includes a PhD from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Dr. Ngo's research investigates developmental shifts in episodic memory specificity, semantic generalization, and relational binding from infancy through adulthood. Using behavioral and cognitive neuroscience methods, her work reveals how memory systems mature, with key findings on holistic recollection emergence and the contingency of semantic generalization on episodic specificity across developmental stages.

Her 2018-2021 publications demonstrate consistent focus on developmental memory processes, particularly episodic specificity generalization and relational binding mechanisms. These studies collectively map critical transitions in memory architecture during childhood and their neural underpinnings.

Her scientific awards include:

• Emmy Noether Fellowship (German Research Foundation)
• Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship (2022-2024)

Dr. Ngo directs the RAVEN research group, funded by a German Research Foundation grant (Project 465410548, 2021-2024) titled 'Determining the neural basis of episodic specificity and generalization in development' and the Jacobs Fellowship project 'Propellers of Learning and Memory in Early Development', which investigates memory-cognition rhythms across the lifespan.