Jonathan B. Freeman
Dartmouth College
PBS Department
6207 Moore Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
 

Jon Freeman is Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and director of the Social Cognitive & Neural Sciences Lab. Before coming to Dartmouth, he completed his Ph.D. at Tufts University and B.A. at New York University.

His research focuses on the cognitive and neural basis of person perception, and specifically on how the brain extracts and represents social information from facial, vocal, and bodily cues. He is interested in the dynamic and interacting processes that underlie basic perceptions of other people, including social categories and group membership (e.g., gender, race), personality traits, and emotion. In particular, he studies how such perceptions are influenced by multiple complex cues; how perceptions cross-talk and combine; and how visual processing interacts with social cognitive factors and prior social and cultural knowledge to shape the basic ways we see and understand other people. He takes an integrative and multi-level approach in examining these phenomena, incorporating insights across social psychology and the cognitive, vision, and neural sciences. His studies use a wide range of methodologies, including neuroimaging, event-related brain potentials, real-time behavioral techniques (e.g., computer mouse-tracking), and computational modeling. He is also the developer of the data collection and analysis software package, MouseTracker, and has been the recipient of several awards, including the APA Early Researcher Award (2009) and an NIH National Research Service Award.

Please visit the lab website for more information.