greg cox
Welcome! As an undergraduate at the University of Maryland's College Park campus, I received a B.S. in Psychology 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. My main interests are in memory and learning and the nature of mental representations, and I like to develop computational models to explore such things. I currently work at the University of Maryland's Decision, Attention, and Memory Lab, supervised by Dr. Michael Dougherty. I have also worked with Dr. Tim Nokes' Cognitive Science Learning Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh and with Dr. Isaiah Harbison, now of the Center for the Advanced Study of Language (see my research page).
I like to apply the techniques I use in my psychological research to music composition, where I am particularly interested in segmentation and how working memory constraints influence music perception, cognition, and improvisation. That's why I also got that degree in Music Composition, which I studied with Dr. James Fry (see my music page).
In my spare time, such as it is, I do 3D graphics, and play piano. Until recently, I 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 sit on the Board of Directors of the 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.