greg cox
Welcome! I'm a Ph.D. student in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. I currently work at the Cognitive Computing Lab (also known as the "Computational Language and Cognition Lab") with Dr. Michael Jones and at the Memory and Perception Lab (also known as the MATH MODELS lab, but you'll have to stop by to find out why...) with Dr. Richard Shiffrin. Broadly, I'm interested in memory and learning and the nature of mental representations, and in the development and application of computational models of cognition. Narrowly, I'm interested in a great many cool things you can learn more about on my research page.
Some history: As an undergraduate at the University of Maryland's College Park campus, I received a B.S. in Psychology (Cognitive) and a B.M. in Music Composition. Why, you ask? After a great deal of experimentation and intellectual wandering, I finally realized that I had been studying psychology--how and why people do and believe what they do--all along, so I decided I should get a degree in it.
I like to apply the techniques I use in my psychological research to music composition, where I am particularly interested in segmentation and in information theoretic approaches to music cognition and composition. I even got that degree in Music Composition, which I studied with Dr. James Fry (see my music page). In addition to some standard crazy modern music, which you can hear in all the least popular music halls of America, you can also hear my "Tetris Opera" (a.k.a., "Korobeiniki") arrangement on tour with Video Games Live, who perform orchestral arrangements of video game music with professional orchestras.
In my spare time, such as it is, I do 3D graphics, and play some piano. Until recently, I also served as a conductor, arranger, and composer for the University of Maryland Gamer Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer orchestra dedicated to playing music from video games. Now, I work for Gamer Symphony Orchestras, Inc., which is a non-profit charitable organization that supports the study, creation, promotion, and performance of video game music.
My life's goal is to become the answer to a crossword puzzle clue.