Christine L. Cox, M.A.
Phone: (520) 621-8792
Email: cox88@email.arizona.edu
EDUCATION
2004 – present
Ph.D.
program in Cognition and Neural Systems
Advisor: Dr. Lee Ryan
1999 – 2003 Tulane
University,
B.A.
in Cognitive Studies and Philosophy
Honors
Thesis: “Conceptual cognition”
Cumulative
GPA: 3.92
2001 – 2002 Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Study
abroad, classes in Italian
HONORS
Summer, 2007 Summer Institute in Cognitive
Neuroscience
Topic:
Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics and Decision Making
Fellow,
Summer Institute 2007,
Summer, 2005 Vivian Smith Advanced Studies Institute of the
International Neuropsychological Society
Topic:
Genetically Based Syndromes of Mental Retardation
Fellow,
Summer Institute 2005,
RESEARCH INTERESTS
·
Using
fMRI methodology to understand the bases of human cognition
·
Autobiographical
memory, Theory of Mind, and the Self
·
Autism
and neurodevelopmental disorders
·
Social
Cognitive Neuroscience
o
contextual
modulation of neural responses to stereotype and ingroup/outgroup
membership
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2004 – present
Graduate Research Assistant,
Cognition & Neuroimaging Labs
Supervisor: Dr. Lee Ryan
fMRI study design, implementation, data
collection and analysis; focus on the neural correlates of
autobiographical memory retrieval
2003 – 2004 Columbia
University,
Research
Assistant and Lab Manager, Memory & Attention Lab
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Mangels
ERP study design, implementation, data collection and
analysis; focus on false memory and memory
for emotionally salient stimuli
2003
Research
Assistant, Attention & Emotion Lab
Supervisor: Dr. Joseph Dien
Behavioral study implementation,
data collection and analysis; focus on individual differences in
personality and their effect on performance
during attentional tasks
2002
Independent
Study research project, “Computational Conception”
Supervisors: Dr. Radu Bogdan & Dr. Marin Simina
Modeled computational concept formation using MatLab Neural
Network software and compared
artificial intelligence to human brain
function
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Summer, 2008 Summer Session Instructor,
Psychology
326: Human Memory
Summer, 2007 Summer Session Guest Lecturer,
Psychology
326: Human Memory
Summer, 2006 Summer
Session Instructor,
Psychology
325: Cognitive Psychology
2006 - present Independent Study Supervisor,
Psychology
299: Undergraduate independent study
Fall, 2005 Graduate
Teaching Assistant,
Individuals
and Society 101: Structure of Mind and Behavior
Instructor: Anne Scott, M.A.
PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Articles
Ryan, L., Cox, C.,
Hayes, S.M., Nadel, L. (in press) Hippocampal activation during episodic
and semantic memory retrieval: Comparing
category production and category cued
recall. Neuropsychologia.
Posters
Cox, C., Forbes, C.E., Ryan, L. (2008) Memory processing
associated with outgroup faces presented in a negative stereotypic context is
moderated by motivation to not be prejudiced:
fMRI and behavioral evidence. Poster. Social & Affective Neuroscience Conference,
Cox, C.,
Forbes, C.E., Ryan, L. (2007). Amygdala and
prefrontal interactions in the contextual modulation of the perception of
outgroup faces: An fMRI study. Poster. Society for Neuroscience,
Forbes, CE, Cox, C, Ryan, L. (2007). The effects of music on the fast and slow
perception of outgroup faces: an fMRI investigation.
Poster. Neural Systems of Social
Behavior Conference,
Cox, C, Hayes, S, Patterson, D, Nadel, L, Ryan, L. (2006). Precuneus
deactivations in a semantic memory retrieval task as
measured by fMRI. Poster. Society for Neuroscience,
Cox, C, Patterson, D, Nadel,
L, Ryan, L. (2005). Comparing Real and Imagined
Autobiographical Event Memories with fMRI.
Poster.
Society for Neuroscience,
Ryan, L, Cox, C, Patterson, D, Nadel,
L. (2005). Comparing fMRI activation of real and
imagined autobiographical event memories.
Poster.
11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for
Human Brain Mapping,
Mangels
J, Cox C. (2004). Modulation of
episodic encoding-related neural activity by top-down selection and bottom-up
orienting
in perceptual, conceptual and emotional domains. Poster. Cognitive Neuroscience
Society Annual Meeting,
Other
Cox, C.
(2007). Retrieval of remote and recent
autobiographical event memories vs. imagined autobiographical events: an fMRI
investigation.
Master’s thesis.
Cox, C. (2003). Conceptual
cognition: an interdisciplinary approach to concept formation. Honors thesis.
SKILLS
·
Operation of
human fMRI studies on the General Electric 3.0T HD Signa
Excite system
·
Operation of
human EEG/ERP studies on the NeuroScan 64-Channel Quik-Cap system and the NeuroScan
SynAmps2 amplifier system
·
Computer skills:
-
Windows, UNIX
-
Programming in
DMDX presentation software, MatLab, C/C++
-
Data analysis
using MatLab, BESA, SPM, SAS and SPSS
MEMBERSHIP
2002
– present Cognitive
Neuroscience Society
2004
– present Society
for Neuroscience
2004
– present Arizona
Alzheimer’s Research Consortium
2005 Organization for
Human Brain Mapping
SERVICE
2006
– present Relay
for Life, American Cancer Society
Participated
in psychology department relay team to raise
awareness and funds for cancer research
2006
– present Graduate
Student Orientation Committee,
Welcomed and provided information to new graduate
students
2005
– present Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation of Southern
In-Kind Donation
Committee Co-Chair
Contacted and secured walk-a-thon donations from
various local and national companies,
organize walk activities, fund raising, create walk teams
2004
– 2005 Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation of
Committee
Member
Organized walk-a-thon activities, fund-raising,
volunteered during walk, created walk teams