Dr. Emily Freeman

Area of Research

Cognitive Psychology

Awards

Basic Science Prize (2003). Awarded annually by The University of Newcastle’s School of Psychology to the student with the best honours thesis from a basic science domain.

Psychology Research Interests

I am interested in the study of Recognition Memory. In my PhD work (supervised by Dr Kerry Chalmers and Dr Andrew Heathcote) I studied the effects of different lexical characteristics of words and nonwords (word frequency, nonword pronounceability, and neighbourhood density), as well as the effects of different encoding tasks (free study, lexical decision, and naming), on recognition memory. Currently I am working with Dr Simon Dennis and Dr John Dunn trying to distinguish between the single- and dual-process accounts of recognition memory using ERPs

Recent Key Publications

Freeman, E ., Heathcote, A., Chalmers, K., & Hockley, W. (Submitted). Item effects in recognition memory for words.

Heathcote, A., Bora, B., & Freeman, E. (Submitted). Modeling choice-similarity effects in episodic recognition.

Heathcote, A., Freeman, E., Etherington, J., Tonkin, J., Bora, B. (Accepted). Choice similarity and episodic face recognition.

Heathcote, A., Freeman, E., Hockley, W., & Chalmers, K. (Submitted). Episodic recognition memory for nonwords: The cost and benefits of regularity.

Bohlscheid, E.E ., Chalmers, K.A., & Heathcote, A. (2006). Reflections on the mirror effect: Word/Nonword comparisons in item recognition. Paper presented at the International Conference on Memory 4, Sydney, Australia, July 16-21, 2006.