Graduate Student

Neuroscience

Office: Rm 312
Phone: (615) 322-5522
Fax: (615) 343-8449
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Degrees

• B.Sc Hons., Imperial College London, Biochemistry, 2004

Research Area

• My interests lie in understanding the evolution of the neocortex and functional organization of sensory systems in mammals, and how complex brains, such as those of humans, are built from simpler forms.

Current Research

• Defining the architectonic subdivisions of small mammals, such as squirrels, close relatives of primates, such as tree shrews, and galagos.
• Understanding the connections between the visual cortex and the pulvinar in galagos and the connections of the temporal cortex of squirrels.
• The cellular scaling rules in brain evolution and how they may differ between various orders of mammals, such as rodents and primates.

Current Courses

• PSY 258, Animal Behavior (Jon Kaas), Spring 2008
• PSY 252, Human Sexuality (Leslie Smith), Fall 2007
• PSY 246, Schizophrenia (Sohee Park), Spring 2007
• PSY 201, Introduction to Neuroscience (Leslie Smith), Fall, 2006
• PSY 258, Biological Basis of Mental Disorders (Leslie Smith), Spring, 2006
• PSY 201, Introduction to Neuroscience (Leslie Smith), Fall, 2005

Professional Societies

• Society for Neuroscience
• Royal College of Science Association
• Singapore Neuroscience Association

Representative Publications

• Wong P, Collins CE and Kaas JH. Overview of sensory systems of Tarsius. International J Primatology. (Under review)
• Wong P, Collins CE, Baldwin MKL and Kaas JH. Cortical connections of the visual pulvinar complex in prosimian galagos (Otolemur garnetti). (2009) J Comp Neurol. 517(4):493-511.
• Wong P and Kaas JH. (2009) Architectonic subdivisions of neocortex in the short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica). Brain Behavior and Evolution. 73(3):206-228.
• Gabi M, Collins CE, Wong P, Kaas JH, Herculano-Houzel S. Cellular scaling rules for an extended number of primate species. Anat. Rec. (Under review)
• Wong P and Kaas JH. (2009) Architectonic subdivisions of neocortex in tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri). Anat. Rec. 292(7):994-1027.
• Wong P, Gharbawie OA, Luethke LE, Kaas JH. (2008) Thalamic connections of architectonic subdivisions of temporal cortex in grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinenesis). J Comp Neurol. 510(4):440-461.
• Wong P and Kaas JH. (2008) Architectonic subdivisions of neocortex in the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Anat. Rec. 219(10):1301-1333
• Herculano-Houzel S, Collins CE , Wong P, Kaas JH and Lent R (2008) The basic non-uniformity of the cerebral cortex. PNAS 105(34):12593-12598.
• Herculano-Houzel S, Collins CE, Wong P, and Kaas JH (2007) Cellular scaling rules for primate brains. PNAS 104: 3562-3567
• Tadin D, Wong P, Mebane M, Berkowitz MJ, Trott H, Park S (2005) Believing is Seeing in Schizophrenia: The role of top-down processing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 775.