Lab Alum – Chris Cox

Currently

Hello! I’m Chris Cox, a PhD graduate of Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. During my time in Madison I worked in collaboration with Tim Rogers  in the Knowledge and Concepts Lab and Mark Seidenberg in the Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab on topics aimed at better understanding how the meanings of words are represented in the brain.

Distributed representations

Much of my work directly confronts the possibility that the brain represents meaning in idiosyncratic patterns of activity distributed throughout the brain. This is based on two basic hypotheses: (1) that meaning is not static, and not universal, and will be completely experience and context dependent, and (2) that meaning is supported by much of the brain.

Peer-reviewed articles:

  1. Cox, C. R., Seidenberg, M.S., and Rogers., T. T. (2015). Connecting functional brain imaging and Parallel Distributed Processing. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 30:4, 380-394, DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2014.994010
  2. Rao, N., Cox, C. R., Nowak, R., and Rogers, T. T. (2013). Sparse Overlapping Sets Lasso for Multitask Learning and its Application to fMRI Analysis. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26.

Conference Presentations & Talks:

  1. Cox, C. R., Lu, Q, & Rogers, T. T. (2015). Iterative Lasso: An even-handed  approach to whole brain MVPA. Poster presented at the 21st meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
  2. Cox, C. R., Rao, N., Nowak, R., & Rogers, T. T. (2014). SOS Lasso: A new method for finding distributed representations in fMRI data. Poster presented at the 21st meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
  3. Cox, C. R., Seidenberg, M. S., Binder, J. R., Desai, R. H. and Rogers, T. T. (2012). Are semantic representations of words radically distributed? Poster presented at 13th meeting of the Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Donastia-San Sebastian, Spain.
  4. Cox, C. R., Malekpour, S., Nowak, R., and Rogers, T. T. (2012). A new method for fMRI analysis suggests that representations of word meaning are radically distributed Poster presented at 1st Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Discovery Challenge, Madison, WI.
  5. Cox, C. R., Seidenberg, M. S., Binder, J. R., Desai, R. H. and Rogers, T. T. (2012). Are semantic representations of words radically distributed? Poster presented at 19th Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL.
  6. Gomez, P., Cox, C. R., and Geller, J. (2011). Modeling corrective saccades. Poster presented at 41st Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology Meeting, Seattle, WA.
  7. Cox, C. R., Gomez, P. (2009). Representation of Viewpoint Information in VSTM. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.