Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Tufts University, 2012
Office: 357
Lab: 233
Email: jon.freeman@dartmouth.edu
Go to the Freeman Lab website.
My research focuses on the cognitive and neural basis of person perception, including the mechanisms through which the brain extracts information from facial, vocal, and bodily cues. In particular, I am interested in how perceptions of other people evolve and stabilize in real time; how they are influenced by multiple sensory cues; and how visual processing interacts with high-level social cognition and prior social and cultural knowledge to shape the basic ways we see and understand other people. I take an integrative and multi-level approach in examining these phenomena, incorporating insights across social psychology and the cognitive, vision, and neural sciences. My studies make use of a wide range of methodologies, including neuroimaging, event-related brain potentials, real-time behavioral techniques such as computer mouse-tracking, and computational modeling.
Go to More Citations on Google Scholar website.
Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (2011). A dynamic interactive theory of person construal. Psychological Review, 118, 247-279.
Freeman, J.B., Ambady, N., Midgley, K.J., & Holcomb, P.J. (2011). The real-time link between person perception and action: Brain potential evidence for dynamic continuity. Social Neuroscience, 6, 139-155.
Freeman, J.B., Rule, N.O., Adams, R.B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (2010). The neural basis of categorical face perception: Graded representations of face gender in fusiform and orbitofrontal cortices. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 1314-1322.
Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (2009). Motions of the hand expose the partial and parallel activation of stereotypes. Psychological Science, 20, 1183-1188.
Freeman, J.B., Ambady, N., Rule, N.O., & Johnson, K.L. (2008). Will a category cue attract you? Motor output reveals dynamic competition across person construal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 673-690.
