Christine
L. Cox, M.A.
Cognition & Neuroimaging Laboratories Phone:
(520) 621-8792
Department of Psychology,
Tucson, AZ 85721
EDUCATION
2004 Ð present University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Ph.D.
program in Cognition and Neural Systems
Advisors: Dr. Lee Ryan and Dr. Lynn Nadel
Cumulative
GPA: 4.0
1999 Ð 2003 Tulane
University, New Orleans, Louisiana
B.A.
in Cognitive Studies and Philosophy
Graduated
Summa Cum Laude; Cumulative GPA: 3.92
2001 Ð 2002 Universit‡ degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Using neuroimaging
methodology to investigate the neural bases of human cognition
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Using cognitive
neuroscience methods to investigate social cognition
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Autobiographical memory,
and memory for self and other
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The role of perspective
in processing information about self and other
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Development of human
social cognition, specifically self-concept formation and understanding the
mental states of others
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Neurodevelopmental
disorders of social cognition, such as Autism and AspergerÕs
Syndrome
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2004 Ð present University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Graduate Research
Assistant, Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratories
Supervisors: Dr. Lee Ryan and Dr. Lynn Nadel
fMRI study design, implementation, data
collection and analysis; focus on the neural correlates of remembering and imagining
autobiographical events; collaborative work with social psychologists
investigating the effects of context on the neural correlates and behavioral
effects of evaluative processing
2003 Ð 2004 Columbia
University, New York, New York
Research
Assistant and Lab Manager, Memory and Attention Laboratory
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Mangels
ERP study design, implementation, data
collection and analysis; focus on false memory and memory for emotionally
salient stimuli
2002 Ð 2003 Tulane
University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Research
Assistant, Attention and Emotion Laboratory
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
MEMBERSHIP
2008 Ð present Society
for Personality and Social Psychology
2007 Ð present Social
and Affective Neuroscience Society
2005 Organization
for Human Brain Mapping
2004 Ð present Arizona
AlzheimerÕs Research Consortium
2004 Ð present Society
for Neuroscience
2002 Ð present Cognitive
Neuroscience Society
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Publications
Ryan, L., Cox, C., Hayes,
S.M., Nadel, L. (2008). Hippocampal activation during episodic
and semantic
memory retrieval: Comparing
category production and category cued recall. Neuropsychologia,
46,
2109-2121.
Cox, C.L., Nadel, L., Ryan, L. (in preparation). Remembering and imagining
autobiographical events:
Differential
modulation of neural activation by ratings of subjective experience.
Forbes, C.E., Cox,
C.L., Schmader, T., Ryan, L. (in preparation). The effects of negative stereotype
activation
on neural correlates
of implicit and explicit evaluation.
Cox, C.L., Forbes, C.E., Ryan,
L., Schmader, T. (in preparation). I want my mind off stereotypes, but stereotypes
are on my mind:
Motivation to not be prejudiced moderates memory for outgroup faces in a
negative
stereotypic
context.
Conference Presentations
Cox, C., Forbes, C., Ryan,
L., Schmader, T. (2009). I want my mind off
stereotypes, but stereotypes are on my
mind: Motivation to not be prejudiced moderates memory for outgroup faces in
a negative stereotypic
context. Symposium Presentation,
ÒMotivational neuroscience: The social brain is not hard-wired.Ó
Society for Personality & Social
Psychology,
Conference Posters
Cox, C.L., Pu, L., Nadel, L., Ryan, L.
(2008). Keeping it in perspective: Precuneus activation to events
remembered and imagined
from first and third person points of view. Poster. Society for Neuroscience,
Pu, L., Cox, C.L., Ryan, L. (2008). Group independent component analysis of autobiographical memories vs.
imagined events. Poster. Society for
Neuroscience,
Ryan, L., Pu, L., Cox, C.L. (2008). Comparing time courses of brain activation for
remembered and imagined
events identified
by two analysis methods: General Linear Modeling and Probabilistic Independent
Component Analysis. Poster. Society for Neuroscience,
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, C.E., 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,
HONORS
2008 Ð 2009 Recipient,
Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute Dissertation Research
Grant,
2008 Ð 2009 Fellow,
Technology and Research Initiative Funding Imaging Fellowship,
May, 2008 Recipient,
Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant
For
presentation of a poster at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference,
June,
2008
Summer, 2007 Fellow,
Summer
Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience,
Barbara
Topic:
Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics and Decision Making
Summer, 2005 Fellow,
Vivian
Smith Advanced Studies Institute of the International Neuropsychological
Society,
Topic:
Genetically Based Syndromes of Mental Retardation
May, 2005 Recipient,
Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant
For
presentation of a poster at The Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Conference, June,
2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Summer, 2008 Summer
Session Instructor, Presession, University of Arizona
Psychology
326: Human Memory
Summer, 2007 Summer
Session Guest Lecturer, Presession, University of
Arizona
Psychology
326: Human Memory
Summer, 2006 Summer Session Instructor, Session II,
University of Arizona
Psychology
325: Cognitive Psychology
2006 - present Independent Study Supervisor, University
of Arizona
Psychology
299: Undergraduate independent study
Fall, 2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant,
University of Arizona
Individuals
and Society 101: Structure of Mind and Behavior
SERVICE
2008 Ð present Committee
Member, Psychology Department Mini-Convention,
University
of Arizona
Organize and run
annual meeting to promote graduate student and faculty
presentation and
discussion of departmental research
2006 Ð present Psychology
Department team member and fundraiser, Relay for Life,
American
Cancer Society
2006 Ð 2007 Teaching
Advocacy Committee, Psychology Department, University of
Arizona
New
graduate student orientation and teaching assistant training
2004 Ð 2007 In-Kind
Donation Committee Co-Chair, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of
Southern
Arizona