Dr Emma Bridger

Senior Research Fellow in Psychology

School of Social Sciences

Email:: Emma.Bridger@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: 0121 331 3580

Emma’s academic trajectory is a bit unconventional. Over the past 15 years she has transitioned from a researcher in neuroscience of memory to a broader behavioural scientist.

Emma completed her undergraduate BSc in Psychology at Cardiff University in 2006, where she went on to undertake a doctoral thesis on Electrophysiological Correlates of Individual Differences in Strategic Retrieval Processing supervised by Professor Ed Wilding.

From 2010-2014, Emma worked as scientific researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiterin) and lecturer at the Universitaet des Saarlandes Experimentelle Neuropsychologie Unit, with Professor Dr Axel Mecklinger.

In 2014, she completed an MSc in Behavioural Sciences at the University of Stirling Management School. Emma has worked as a Research Fellow at Birmingham City University in the Department of Psychology since August 2015, where she is a member of the School of Social Sciences Research Centre for Lifespan and Behavioural Science.

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Publications

Bridger, E. K. & Nettle, D. (2022). Public perceptions of the effectiveness of income provision on reducing psychological distress. Journal of Public Mental Health.
Aldrovandi, S., Bridger, E. K., Knowles, D. & Poirier, M. (2022). Retrospective and prospective evaluations of mammograph screening narratives: The role of own experience. Experimental Psychology.
Bridger, E. K. & Daly, M. (2020). Intergenerational social mobility predicts midlfe well-being: Prospective evidence from two large British Cohorts. Social Science & Medicine, 261, 113217 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113217.
Bridger, E. K. & Daly, M. (2018). Cognitive ability as a moderator of the association between social disadvantage and psychological distress: evidence from a population-based sample. Psychological Medicine, 1-10, DOI: 10.1017/S0033291718002118.
Bridger, E. K. & Daly, M. (2017). Does cognitive ability buffer the link between childhood disadvantage and adult health? Health Psychology, 36(10), 966-976. doi: 10.1037/hea0000538
Bridger, E. K., Kursawe, A-L., Bader, R., Tibon, R., Gronau, N., Levy, D. & Mecklinger, A. (2017). Age effects on associative memory for novel picture pairings. Brain Research, 1664, 102-115.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2017.03.031
Bridger, E. K. & Wood, A. (2017). Gratitude mediates consumer responses to marketing communications. European Journal of Marketing, 51 (1), 44-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-11-2015-0810
Studte, S., Bridger, E. K., & Mecklinger. A. (2016). Sleep spindles during a nap correlate with post sleep memory performance for highly rewarded word-pairs. Brain & Language, 167, 28-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.03.003
Bai, C-H., Bridger, E. K., Zimmer, H., & Mecklinger, A. (2015). [The beneficial effect of testing: An event-related potential study]. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 248. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00248
Studte, S., Bridger, E. K., & Mecklinger. A. (2015). Nap sleep preserves associative but not item memory performance. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 120, 84-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2015.02.012
Bridger, E. K., Sprondel, V. & Mecklinger, A. (2015). Control over Recollection varies with Context-Type: ERP Evidence from the Exclusion Task. Cognitive Neuroscience, 6(1), 31-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2014.996211
Scheuplein, A-L., Bridger, E. K. & Mecklinger, A. (2014). Is faster better? Effects of response deadline on ERP correlates of recognition memory in young and older adults. Brain Research, 1582, 139-153.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2014.07.025
Bridger, E. K., Bader, R. & Mecklinger, A. (2014). More ways than one: ERPs reveal multiple familiarity signals in the word frequency mirror effect. Neuropsychologia, 57, 179-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.03.
Bridger, E. K. & Mecklinger, A. (2014). Errorful and errorless learning: The impact of cue-target constraint in learning from errors. Memory & Cognition, 42(6), 898-911. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-014-0408-z
Kriukova, O., Bridger, E. K. & Mecklinger, A. (2013). [Semantic relations differentially impact associative recognition memory: Electrophysiological evidence]. Brain & Cognition, 83(1), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2013.07.006
Bridger, E. K., Bader, R., Kriukova, O., Unger, K. & Mecklinger, A. (2012). The FN400 is functionally distinct from the N400. NeuroImage, 63, 1334-1342. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.047
Halsband, T. M., Ferdinand, N. K., Bridger, E. K., & Mecklinger, A. (2012). Monetary rewards influence retrieval orientations. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 12(3), 430-445. doi: 10.3758/s13415-012-0093-y
Bridger, E. K. & Mecklinger, A. (2012). Electrophysiologically dissociating episodic preretrieval processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(6), 1476-1491. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00152
Bridger, E. K. & Wilding, E. L. (2010). Requirements at retrieval modulate subsequent memory effects: An event-related potential study. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 254-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2010.484882
Bridger, E. K., Herron, J. E., Elward, R. L., & Wilding, E. L. (2009). Neural correlates of individual differences in strategic retrieval processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 35(5), 1175-1186.