Sunday, April 05, 2009

Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION
  1. National University of Singapore (1998-2001), majored in Psychology and English Language, minored in Philosophy, Bachelor of Social Sciences 2001.
  2. National University of Singapore (2002), Bachelor of Social Science with Honors (2nd Upper) in Psychology.
  3. University of Texas at Austin (Fall 1999), exchange program, majored in Psychology and Linguistics.
  4. Talent Development Program (1998-2002), National University of Singapore.
  5. Currently enrolled in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (since Fall 2005), Psychology PhD program
  6. Highest level attained: Masters in Psychology

MILITARY SERVICE
  1. National Service (1996 – 1998)

EMPLOYMENT
  1. Research coordinator at Singapore General Hospital, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (2001-2005)
  2. Part-time research coordinator at Singapore General Hospital, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (2001)
  3. Part-time research assistant at NUS Department of Geography (2000)
  4. Part-time autistic therapy assistant at NUS Department of Psychology (1999)

APPOINTMENTS
  1. Editor, Talent Development Program magazine (2000-2001)
  2. Contact Group Leader, Varsity Christian Fellowship (1999-2001)

HONORS AND AWARDS
  1. Incomplete List of Teachers Listed as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Fall 2008.
  2. Departmental Travel Award, Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Fall 2008.

MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES
  1. Varsity Christian Fellowship (1998-2002), National University of Singapore
  2. Photographic Society (1998-2002), National University of Singapore
  3. Dartmouth Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience (2005)

Articles, Chapters and Reviews
  1. Goh, J., Suzuki, A., Park, D., (in preparation). Attending to face-pair similarity reduces fMR-Adaptation to repeated faces.
  2. Goh, J., Chee, M. W. L., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B., Abdi, H., Dunlop, J., Krishnan, A., Park, D., (in preparation). Culture modulates age-related ventral-visual selectivity.
  3. Goh, J., Suzuki, A., Park, D., (in preparation). Reduced neural selectivity increases face adaptation with age.
  4. Goh, J., Chee, M. W. L., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B., Park, D., (in preparation). Culture modulates ventral-visual selectivity to faces and houses.
  5. Goh, J., Tan, J. C., Park, D., (in preparation). Culture modulates eye-movements to visual novelty.
  6. Leshikar, E. D., Goh, J., Hebrank, A., Jenkins, L., Chee, M., Park, D., (submitted). Frontal compensation for default network suppression deficits in older adults during scene encoding.
  7. Jenkins, L. J., Yang, Y. J., Goh, J., Hong, Y. Y., Park, D. C. (in press). Cultural differences in the lateral occipital complex while viewing incongruent scenes. Social, Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience.
  8. Goh, J., Park, D. (in press). Neuroplasticity and cognitive aging: The scaffolding theory of aging and cognition. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.
  9. Park, D., Goh, J., (in press). Healthy aging: a neurocognitive perspective. Eds. J. Cacioppo & G. Bernston, Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience.
  10. Sutton, B., Goh, J., Hebrank, A., Welsh, R. C., Chee, M. W. L., Park, D., (2008). Investigation and validation of intersite fMRI studies using the same imaging hardware. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 28(1), 21-28.
  11. Gutchess, A., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B., Leshikar, E., Chee, M. W. L., Tan, J. C., Goh, J., Park, D., (2007). Contextual Interference in Recognition Memory with Age. NeuroImage, 35(3), 1338-1347.
  12. Goh, J., Chee, M. W. L., Tan, J. C., Venkatraman, V., Hebrank, A., Leshikar, E., Jenkins, L., Sutton. B., Gutchess, A., Park, D., (2007). Age and Culture Modulate Object Processing and Object-Scene Binding in the Ventral Visual Area. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(1), 44-52.
  13. Chee, M. W. L., Goh, J., Venkatraman, V., Tan, J. C., Gutchess, A., Sutton, B., Hebrank, A., Leshikar, E., Park, D., (2006). Age-Related Changes in Object Processing and Contextual Binding Revealed using fMR Adaptation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(4), 495-507.
  14. Goh, J., Soon, C. S., Park, D., Gutchess, A., Hebrank, A., Chee, M. W. L., (2004). Cortical Areas Involved in Object, Background and Object-Background Processing Revealed with fMR-A. Journal of Neuroscience, 24(45), 10223-10228.
  15. Chee, M. W. L., Goh, J., Lim, Y., Graham, S., Lee, K., (2004). Recognition Memory For Studied Words Is Determined by Cortical Activation Differences at Encoding But Not During Retrieval. NeuroImage, 22, 1456-1465.
  16. Chee, M. W. L., Westphal, C., Goh, J., Graham, S., Song, A. W., (2003). Word frequency and subsequent memory effects studied using event-related fMRI. NeuroImage, 20(2), 1042-1051
  17. Chee, M. W. L., Hon, N. H. H., Caplan, D., Lee, H. L.,Goh, J., (2002). Frequency of Concrete Words Modulates Prefrontal Activation during Semantic Judgments. NeuroImage, 16(1), 259-268.
Abstracts
  1. Goh, J., Suzuki, A., Park, D. (2009). Attending to face-pair similarity decreases face adaptation in the fusiform area. [43.445]. Presented at the Vision Science Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL, USA.
  2. Goh, J., Suzuki, A., Park, D. (2008). Aging reduces neural selectivity and increases face adaptation. [G94]. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  3. Jenkins, L., Yang, Y., Goh, J., Hong, Y., Park, D. (2008). Cultural differences in the processing of incongruous scenes revealed using fMR adaptation. [B21]. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  4. Suzuki, A., Goh, J., Sutton, B., Hebrank, A., Jenkins, L., Flicker, B., Park, D. (2008). Emotional faces produced less repetition suppression than neutral faces. [E19]. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  5. Goh, J., Chee, M., Tan, J.C., Park, D. (2007). Aging and cultural differences in eye-movements during complex picture viewing. [D7]. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY, USA.
  6. Goh, J., Chee, M., Tan, J.C., Venkatraman, V., Leshikar, E., Hebrank, A., Jenkins, L., Sutton, B., Park, D. (2006). Aging and culture modulate fMR-Adaptation in the ventral visual area. Abstract No. 359. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. Available online at http://www.cogneurosociety.org/content/CNS2006_Abstracts.xls
  7. Gutchess, A., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B., Leshikar, E., Chee, M., Tan, J.C., Goh, J., Park, D. (2005). Prefrontal compensation with age for contextual interference. Program No. 127.8. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2005. Online.
  8. Chee, M., Goh, J., Tan, J.C., Gutchess, A., Sutton, B., Hebrank, A., Leshikar, E., Park, D. (2005). FMR adaptation shows that age and culture modulate visual processing of complex pictures. Program No. 127.4. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2005. Online.
  9. Chee, M., Goh, J., Lim, Y., Graham, S. (2003). Event-related fMRI of incidental encoding of episodic retrieval of high and low frequency words. [17649]. Presented at the 9th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 18-22, 2003, New York, NY, USA. Available on CD-Rom in NeuroImage, Vol. 19, No. 2
  10. Chee, M., Goh, J., Lim, Y., Graham, S. (2003). Neural correlates of the effect of word frequency at encoding and retrieval. Program No. 288.15. 2003 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2003. Online.
  11. Chee, M., Soon, C., Westphal, C., Lee, H., Goh, J. (2002). Printed word frequency effects on semantic judgment: a comparison between event-related and block designs. [10110]. Presented at the 8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 2-6, 2002, Sendai, Japan. Available on CD-Rom in NeuroImage, Vol. 16, No. 2

  1. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Perception. Invited talk presented at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Spring 2009 course on Cognition and Personality Across the Lifespan: Only as Old as You Think You Are, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
  2. Aging, Culture, and Ventral Visual Selectivity. Presented at the 2008 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
  3. Age and Culture Modulate the Ventral Visual Area. Presented at the Advanced Sensory Developmental Neuroscience Seminar, 2008, 17th March, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
  4. Aging in Different Cultural Environments: Visual Brain Activity and Eye-Movements. Presented at the Beckman Graduate Student Seminar 2008, March 26th, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
  5. Age Differences in Activations of a Frontal-Parietal Network Associated with Categorical and Coordinate Judgments. Presented at the 2007 Regional Symposium on MRI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  6. Word Frequency and Subsequent memory Studied Using Event-Related fMRI. Presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting, 2003, Singapore General Hospital.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
  1. Psychological and Educational Statistics, Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Fall 2008.
  2. Lab training on functional brain imaging analysis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2007.
  3. Lab training on functional brain imaging analysis, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Singapore, 2005.

  1. Cognitive abilities in kindergartners and first graders: A comparison, evaluation, and extension of models using data from Robinson et al. (1996). Joshua Goh. Paper in fulfillment of class on Structural Equation Modelling at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.
  2. Morphed Faces. Joshua Goh. Stimuli collection, PAL Face Database. Available at https://pal.utdallas.edu/facedb/request/index/Morph, sourced 4th April 2009.
  3. Extension of the Von Der Malsburg Self-Organized Visual Cortex Model. Joshua Goh. Project in fulfillment of class on Neural Network at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
  4. Backpropagation in a non-linear layered network: learning from past mistakes. Joshua Goh. Project in fulfillment of class on Neural Network at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
  5. Hopfield Network. Joshua Goh. Project in fulfillment of class on Neural Network at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
  6. Individual differences in interrogative suggestibility: finding an ERP correlate of recognition memory. Joshua Goh. Thesis in fulfillment of Honour’s degree at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2002.

ART WORK
  1. Cover art, “Birthday Girl”, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(4), 2006.
  2. Cover art, “Sam’s Brain”, Mind and Brain. Innovation: The Magazine of Research and Technology, 5(3), 2005.

PRESS COVERAGE
  1. Pickens Gift Propels Brain Health Research. Dallas Business Business Journal, Dave Moore, 15th to 21st February 2008.
  2. Culture May Make and Impression. The DANA Foundation, Nicky Penttila, Released 4th June 2007. Available at http://www.dana.org/news/features/detail.aspx?id=8008, sourced on 4th April 2009.
  3. Culture Sculpts Neural Responses to Visual Stimuli, New Research Indicates. News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Released 1st May 2007. Available at http://news.illinois.edu/news/07/0501culture.html, sourced on 4th April 2009.

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SKILLS
  1. Fluent in Windows, Mac, Linux operating systems.
  2. Brain imaging analysis: BrainVoyager, SPM
  3. Other analysis software: Matlab, SPSS and AMOS, R

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