Dr Emily Freeman
Researcher, Fathers and Families Research Program

Emily has been a researcher with the Fathers and Families Research Program for the past 2 years. She has an Honours degree in Science (Psychology), a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, and a Postdoc in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her current research projects cover a wide range of topics including the effect of paternal mental health on child behaviour problems, the relationship between parent and child overweight and obesity, and the effects of commuting on parent-child relationships.

Journal Papers

Freeman, E., Heathcote, A., Chalmers, K., & Hockley, W. (2010). Item effects in recognition memory for words. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 1-18. ERA Ranking: A*

Heathcote, A., Bora, B., & Freeman, E. (2010). Recollection and confidence in two-alternative forced choice recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 183-203.ERA Ranking A*

Heathcote, A., Freeman, E., Etherington, J., Tonkin, J., Bora, B. (2009). A dissociation between similarity effects in episodic face recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16(5), 824-831.ERA Ranking: A
Journal Papers Currently Under Review

Fletcher, R., Freeman, E., Garfield, C., & Vimpani, G. The effects of early paternal depression on children’s development. Medical Journal of Australia. ERA Ranking: A

Fletcher, R., Freeman, E., & Matthey, S. The impact of the Triple P Program on mothers’ and fathers’ parenting: A meta-analysis. Fathering. ERA Ranking: C

Freeman, E., Fletcher, R., Collins, C.E., Morgan, P.J., Burrows, T., & Callister, R. Preventing and treating childhood obesity: Time to target fathers. International Journal of Obesity. ERA Ranking: A

Refereed Conference Papers

Freeman, E., Dennis, S., & Dunn, J. (2010). An examination of the ERP correlates of recognition memory using state-trace analysis. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Conference Papers (in date order)

Freeman, E. & Fletcher, R. (2010). Development of the Knowledge About Fatherhood Checklist. Poster presented at the 11th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 7-9, 2010.

Bohlscheid, E.E., Brown, S.D., & Heathcote, A. (2007). Learning with practice: To speed up or not to speed up? Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, California, November 15-18, 2007.

Bohlscheid, E.E., Chalmers, K.A., Heathcote, A., & Hockley, W.E. (2007). N-effects in recognition memory: The effect of nonwords at test. Paper presented at the 34th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Canberra, Australia, April 13-15, 2007.

Heathcote, A., & Bohlscheid, E.E. (2007). Analysis and modelling of response time using the shifted lognormal distribution. Paper presented at the Society for Computers in Psychology Conference, Long Beach, California, November 15, 2007.

Heathcote, A., Bohlscheid, E.E., Etherington, J., & Tonkin, J. (2007). Similarity, confidence and accuracy in face recognition memory. Paper presented at the Edinburgh Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, July 4-7, 2007.

Bohlscheid, E.E., Chalmers, K.A., Heathcote, A., & Hockley, W.E. (2006). Reflections on the mirror effect: Comparisons of word frequency and nonword pronounceability. Paper presented at the 33rd Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Brisbane, Australia, April 20-23, 2006.

Bohlscheid, E.E., Chalmers, K.A., Heathcote, A., & Hockley, W.E. (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.

Bohlscheid, E.E., Chalmers, K.A., Heathcote, A., & Hockley, W.E. (2006). The effect of study task on recognition of words and nonwords. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, Texas, November 16-19, 2006.Heathcote, A., Hockley, W.E., Bohlscheid, E.E., & Chalmers, K.A. (2006). Lexical status effects in recognition memory. Paper presented at the International Conference on Memory 4, Sydney, Australia, July 16-21, 2006.