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Jon Freeman
Graduate Student
Tufts University
Psychology Department
490 Boston Ave.
Medford, MA 02155 |
About me
Prior to coming to Tufts, I received my B.A. in
Psychology, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Neural Science from
New York University.
I am interested in the fuzzy fractions of a second
when sensory information gets turned into basic interpretations of
other people—and the tentative interpretations that may get
simultaneously considered along the way. My work, then, looks at how
the person perception process evolves over time and how, during
this process, multiple perceptual cues (most importantly of the
face, but also of the voice and body) are rapidly integrated into
coherent construals of others. To explore these questions, I use
the continuous hand movements that lead up to perceivers' ultimate
responses (using a
computer
mouse-tracking technique), in addition to event-related brain
potentials, and other behavioral paradigms (e.g., subjective
judgments, priming). In a related line of work, I use fMRI to
explore the neural mechanisms underlying our snap judgments of
others and the neural encoding and
representation of face information. I advocate for an interactive, dynamic person
perception process, seeing it as both temporally dynamic and
functionally dynamic. Temporally dynamic—where a perception is
gradually built up over hundreds of milliseconds (in competition with other possible
perceptions) while continuously interacting with cognition and action. Functionally
dynamic—where top-down factors (e.g., context, prior knowledge, stereotypes,
one's learned cultural environment,
one's motivations) fluidly interact with bottom-up sensory
information to shape the basic ways we see and understand other
people. My approach incorporates insights and techniques across
social and cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and dynamical
frameworks in cognitive science, which I hope will enhance the
overall quality of the research.
>> For more information, please see my
personal website.
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See here about my free-to-use
MouseTracker software.
Journal Articles
Freeman, J.B., Pauker, K., Apfelbaum, E.P., & Ambady, N. (2010).
Continuous dynamics in the real-time perception of race. Journal
of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 179-185. [PDF]
Freeman, J.B. & Ambady, N. (in press). MouseTracker: Software for
studying real-time mental processing using a computer mouse-tracking
method. Behavior Research Methods. [PDF]
Freeman, J.B., Rule, N.O., Adams, R.B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (in
press). The neural basis of categorical face perception: Graded
representations of face gender in fusiform and orbitofrontal
cortices. Cerebral Cortex. [PDF]
Freeman, J.B., Ambady, N., & Holcomb, P.J. (in press). The
face-sensitive N170 encodes social category information.
NeuroReport. [PDF]
Freeman, J.B.,
Schiller, D., Rule, N.O., & Ambady, N. (in press). The neural
origins of superficial and individuated judgments about ingroup and
outgroup members. Human Brain Mapping. [PDF]
Adams, R.B., Franklin, R., Rule, N.O., Freeman, J.B., Kveraga, K.,
Hadjikhani, N., Yoshikawa, S., & Ambady, N. (in press). Culture,
gaze, and the neural processing of fear expressions. Social
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Rule, N.O., Freeman, J.B., Moran, J.M., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Adams, R.B.,
& Ambady, N. (in press). Voting behavior is reflected in amygdala
response across cultures. Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience.
Freeman, J.B. & Ambady,
N. (2009). Motions of the hand
expose the partial and parallel activation of stereotypes. Psychological Science,
20, 1183-1188. [PDF]
Freeman, J.B., Rule, N.O., & Ambady, N. (2009). The
cultural neuroscience of person perception. Progress in Brain
Research, 178, 191-201. [PDF]
Freeman, J.B., Rule, N.O., Adams, R.B., & Ambady, N. (2009). Culture shapes a mesolimbic response to signals of dominance
and subordination that associates with behavior. NeuroImage, 47,
353-359.
[PDF]
Schiller, D., Freeman, J.B., Mitchell, J.P., Uleman, J.S., & Phelps,
E.A. (2009). A neural mechanism of first impressions. Nature Neuroscience,
12, 508-514. [PDF]
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. [PDF]
Book Chapters
Ambady, N., Freeman, J.B., & Rule, N.O. (in press). Culture and the
neural substrates of behavior, perception, and cognition. In J.
Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.) The Handbook of Social Neuroscience.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Johnson, K.L. & Freeman, J.B. (in
press). A "New Look" at person
construal: Seeing beyond dominance and discreteness. In E. Balcetis
& D. Lassiter (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Visual Perception.
New York: Psychology Press.
Rule, N.O., Freeman, J.B., & Ambady, N. (in press). Brain and
behavior in cultural context: Insights from cognition, perception,
and emotion. In S. Han & E. Poeppel (Eds.) Culture and identity:
Neural frames of social cognition. New York: Springer.
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