Cody B. Ross

Cody is a third-year doctoral student in the SCOPE Lab. He has always been fascinated by all things involving the human mind and how it interacts with the world to construct our experiences and our interpretations of those experiences. As an undergraduate, he triple-majored in philosophy (focused on philosophy of mind), linguistics, and computer science as a way to explore these questions from many angles.

As a first-generation student from a low SES background, he opted to work upon graduating in order to build financial stability. He picked up many useful skills working in information technology for years (mostly as a network engineer) before returning to school to pursue a doctoral degree in psychology with a cognitive focus. Thus far, he has done work with his advisor and their other collaborators on goodness of pattern and aesthetic judgments, relational similarity assessment, choice reaction times on structured sets, and the effects of contrast categories and category exposure time on categorization behavior.

Aside from questions of the mind, Cody loves hiking and camping, cats, gaming, programming, and really any sort of problem-solving or puzzles. He hopes to become a research professor and contribute further to the advancement of cognitive science while sharing his passion for it with future generations.