I am a second-year student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. I am interested in understanding the processes underlying human attention and memory, in both healthy and patient populations. I completed a rotation with Charan Ranganath, using ERPs to study how manipulation of the way memories are encoded affect subsequent retrieval of those memories. I also rotated with John Olichney, examining the relationship between ERP markers of memory processing impairment and genetics in patients with FXTAS.  I am currently working with Tony Simon, investigating visual attention and working memory processes in children and adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome or Fragile X Syndrome.

Publications:

Olichney, J.M., Wong, L.M., Chan, S., Schneider, A., Niese, A., Laird, K.T., Nanakul, R., Tassone, F., Hagerman, R. (in preparation)  Abormal N400 Word Repetition Effets in Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome.

Jha, A.P., Stanley, E.A., Kiyonaga, A., Wong, L.M., Gelfand, L. (in revision) Examining the Protective Effects of Mindfulness Meditation in a Military Cohort.

Salahpour, A., Ramsey, A.J., Medvedev, I.O., Kile, B., Sotnikova, T., Holmstrand, E., Ghisi, V., Nicholls, P.J., Wong, L., Murphy, K., Sesack, S.R., Wightman, R.M. (2008) Increased Amphetamine-Induced Hyperactivity and Reward in Mice Overexpressing the Dopamine Transporter. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105(11):4405-10.

Presentations:

Jha, A.P., Stanley, E.A., Kiyonaga, A., Wong, L.M., Gelfand, L. (2009) Mindfulness Training Counteracts Heightened Distractibility in a Military Cohort. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.

Wong, L.M., Riggens, T., Nguyen, V., Simon, TJ. (2009) Impaired Spatiotemporal Processing Impacts Spatial Working Memory Performance in Individuals with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22qDS11.2). Bay Area Memory Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Olichney, J.M., Wong, L.M., Chan, S., Schneider, A., Niese, A., Laird, K.T., Nanakul, R., Tassone, F., Hagerman, R. (2009) Reduced ERP Word Repetition Effects in Patients with Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome. Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium, UC Davis, Davis, CA.

Olichney, J.M., Wong, L.M., Chan, S., Schneider, A., Niese, A., Laird, K.T., Nanakul, R., Tassone, F., Hagerman, R. (2009) Reduced ERP Word Repetition Effects in Patients with Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Kiyonaga, A., Wong, L.M., Jha, A.P. (2009) Examining the lifespan effects of representational conflict during working memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Jha, A.P., Baniqued, P., Wong, L.M., Sreenivasan, K.K. (2009) Examining the neural effects of conflict adaptation during working memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

van Vugt, M., Kiyonaga, A., Wong, L.M., Jha, A.P. (2009) The influence of mindfulness meditation training on visual working memory. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Wong, L.M., van Vugt, M.K., Smallwood, J., Carpenter-Cohn, J., Baime, M. Jha, A.P. (2008) Mindfulness training reduces attentional lapse during a sustained attention task. Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY.

Wong, L.M., van Vugt, M.K., Smallwood, J., Carpenter-Cohn, J., Baime, M. Jha, A.P. (2007) Mindfulness training reduces mind wandering during a sustained attention task. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Wong, L.M., Holmstrand, E., Sesack, S.R. (2006) Examining peculiarities of dopamine transporter localization in mouse striatum. CNUP Summer Undergraduate Fellows Program, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

Wong, L.M., Weltman, G.V., Rosenzweig, J., Schesser, K. (2004) Genotyping the cold-growth ability of Yersinia Pseudotuberculosis. Leadership Alliance Symposium, Washington, D.C.