Members

Lab PI: I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. I received my PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience) from the University of Illinois and my BSocSci with First Class Honours from NUS. Before joining NTU, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). 


Current Lab Members:

Research Assistant/s: Kia En
URECA Student/s: Grace, Raphael, Jing


Interested in joining the lab?

NTU Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA)

  • AY24/25: SSS24050 Substance Abuse and Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Cognitive Ageing
  • AY24/25: SSS24039 Cerebral Frailty with Machine Learning
  • AY24/25: SSS24070 Cerebral Frailty and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
  • AY23/24: SSS23055 Stress and Academic Persistence
  • AY22/23: SSS22024 Cognitive Variation in Alzheimer’s disease
  • AY22/23: SSS22040 Alzheimer’s disease polygenic risk and cerebral perfusion
  • AY21/22: SSS21047 Brain Lesion Segmentation in Clinical Populations
  • AY20/21: SSS20026 & SSS20057 Economic Inequality, Cognitive Function and Risk-Taking. 

Prior undergraduate students presentations at international conferences:

  • Choo CM, Tan CH (2024) Independent Effects of Regional White Matter Hyperintensities and β-amyloid on Domain-Specific Cognition and Progression to Dementia. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA (Received Trainee Professional Development Award)
  • Lim S, Tan JJX, Tan CH (2022) The effect of contextual economic inequality on risk-taking: The role of perceived social mobility. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Ng B, Tan JJX, Tan CH (2022) The effects of perceived economic inequality on inhibitory control: The moderating effect of parental education level. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA

NTU Graduate Research Scholarships

NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship