23rd Jan 2014
CURRICULUM VITAE
JOSHUA GOH OON SOO (吳恩賜)
National Taiwan University College of Medicine
Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences
Brain and Mind Laboratory
No. 1, Sec. 1, Ren-ai Rd.,
15F, Rm 1554,
Zhongzheng District, Taipei 10051,
Taiwan
Office: +886-2-2312-3456 ext 88022
Mobile: +886-9-7836-5993
Email: joshuagoh@ntu.edu.tw
Website: http://gibms.mc.ntu.edu.tw/bmlab/index.php/people/principal-investigator/joshua-goh
BACKGROUND
Josh obtained his Doctoral degree in Psychology at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, USA. In his graduate research, he investigated how aging brain biology and
culture-related life experiences are associated with object, scene, and object-scene binding
neural activity during perceptual processing in young and older Westerners and East Asians.
He then further did his postdoctoral fellowship with the Laboratory of Behavioral
Neuroscience in the National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program, USA. There,
he continued his work on age-related effects on the brain and mind with the Baltimore
Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA), investigating individual differences in age-related
changes in executive processing and the corresponding structural and functional neural
correlates, as well as initiating studies on value-based decision-making in older adults.
Josh is now the Principal Investigator of the Brain and Mind Laboratory at the Graduate
Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University. He continues to work on
better understanding of the human brain and mind, and how they are affected by biological
and experiential factors. Specifically, his interests include the cognitive neuroscience of aging,
individual differences and cross-cultural neuroscience, and decision-making.
EDUCATION
1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2005-Summer 2009), Doctor of
Philosophy in Psychology.
2. National University of Singapore (1998-2002), Bachelor of Social Science with Honors
(2nd Upper) in Psychology.
EMPLOYMENT
1. Assistant professor at National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Graduate Institute
of Brain and Mind Sciences (2012-).
2. Post-doctoral visiting research fellow at the National Institute on Aging (2010-2012),
Supervised by Susan Resnick.
3. Post-doctoral research associate at the Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at
Dallas (2009-2010), Supervised by Denise C. Park.
4. Research coordinator at Singapore General Hospital, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
(2001-2005).
PUBLICATIONS
1. Lin, F.*, Ferrucci, L., An, Y., Goh, J. O., Doshi, J., Metter, E. J., Davatzikos, C., Kraut,
M. A., Resnick, S. M. (in press). Association of hearing impairment with brain volume
changes in older adults. NeuroImage.
2. Wang, Y.*, Goh, J. O.*, Resnick, S. M., Davatzikos, C. (2013). Imaging-based
Biomarkers of Cognitive Performance in Older Adults Constructed via High-Dimensional
Pattern Regression applied to MRI and PET. Public Library of Science ONE, 8(12),
e85460.
3. Beason-Held, L. L.*, Goh, J. O., An, Y., Kraut, M. A., O’Brien, R. J., Ferrucci, L.,
Resnick, S. M. (2013). Changes in brain function occur years before the onset of cognitive
impairment. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(46), 18008-18014.
4. Gutchess, A. H.*, Goh, J. O.* (2013). Refining concepts and uncovering biological
mechanisms for cultural neuroscience. Psychological Inquiry, 24, 1-6.
5. Goh, J. O.* (2013). Aging of neural circuits underlying decision-making behavior.
Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, 2(1), 3-13.
6. Goh, J. O.*, Beason-Held, L. L., An, Y., Kraut, M. A., Resnick, S. M. (2013). Frontal
function and executive processing in older adults: Process and region specific age-related
longitudinal functional changes. NeuroImage, 69, 43-50.
7. Ballesteros, S.*, Bischof, G. N., Goh, J. O., Park, D. C. (2013). Neural correlates of
conceptual object priming in young and older adults: An event-related fMRI study.
Neurobiology of Aging, 34(4), 1254-1264.
8. Farrell, A. M., Goh, J. O., White, B. J.* (2012). The effect of performance-based
incentive contracts on system 1 and system 2 processing in affective decision contexts:
fMRI and behavioral evidence. AAA 2013 Management Accounting Section (MAS)
Meeting Paper. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2111452
9. Huang, C. M.*, Polk, T. A., Goh, J. O., Park, D. P. (2012). Posterior parietal cortices
contribute to compensatory processes in normal aging. Neuropsychologia, 50(1), 55-66.
10. Goh, J. O. S.*, Huang, C. M (2012). Images of the cognitive brain across age and culture.
In P. Bright (Ed.), Neuroimaging - Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. InTech. DOI:
10.5772/23944. Retrieved from http://www.intechopen.com/books/neuroimagingcognitive-and-clinical-neuroscience/imaging-the-brain-across-culture-and-age.
11. Moghekar, A., Goh, J., Li, M., Albert, M., O'Brien, R.* (2012). Cerebrospinal fluid Aβ
peptide and tau levels show little fluctuation in older subjects. Archives of Neurology,
69(2), 246-50.
12. Goh, J. O. S.*, An, Y., Resnick, S. M. (2012). Differential trajectories of age-related
changes in components of executive and memory processes. Psychology and Aging,
27(3), 707-719.
13. Goh, J. O. S.*, Hebrank, A., Sutton, B., Chee, M., Sim, S., Park, D. (2011). Culturerelated differences in default network activity during visuo-spatial judgments. Social,
Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 8(2), 134-142.
14. Goh, J. O. S.* (2011). Functional dedifferentiation and altered connectivity in older
adults: Neural accounts of cognitive aging. Aging and Disease, 1(2), 30-48.
15. Chee, M.*, Zheng, H., Goh, J., & Park, D. (2011). Brain structure in
young and old East Asians and Westerners: Comparisons of structural volume
and cortical thickness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(5), 1065-1079.
16. Suzuki, A.*, Goh, J. O. S., Hebrank, A., Sutton, B., Jenkins, L., Flicker, B., & Park, D. C.
(2011). Sustained happiness? Lack of repetition suppression in right ventral visual cortex
for happy faces. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(4), 434-441.
17. Goh, J. O. S.*, Leshikar, E., Sutton, B. P., Tan, J. C., Sam, S., Hebrank, A., & Park, D.
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(2010). Culture differences in neural processing of faces and houses in ventral visual
cortex. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5(2-3), 227-235.
Goh, J. O. S.*, Suzuki, A., & Park, D. C. (2010). Reduced neural selectivity increases
fMRI adaptation with age during face discrimination. NeuroImage, 51(1), 336-344.
Jenkins, L. J.*, Yang, Y. J., Goh, J., Hong, Y. Y., Park, D. C. (2010). Cultural differences
in the lateral occipital complex while viewing incongruent scenes. Social, Cognitive and
Affective, Neuroscience, 5(2-3), 236-241.
Goh, J. O. S.*, Tan, J. C., Park, D. C. (2009). Culture modulates eye-movements to
visual novelty. Public Library of Science ONE, 4(12), e8238.
Goh, J. O.*, Park, D. C. (2009). Culture sculpts the perceptual brain. Progress in Brain
Research, 178, 95-111.
Goh, J.*, Park, D. C. (2009). Neuroplasticity and cognitive aging: The scaffolding theory
of aging and cognition. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 27, 391-403.
Park, D. C.*, & Goh, J. O. S. (2009). Successful aging. In J. Cacioppo & G. Berntson
(Eds.), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 1203-1219).
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.