Devin B. Terhune is a cognitive neuroscientist, a Reader (Associate Professor) at

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, director of its TAS Laboratory and frequent public speaker. He is primarily known for his work on

suggestion Suggestion is the psychological process by which a person guides their own or another person's desired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by presenting stimuli that may elicit them as reflexes instead of relying on conscious effort. Nineteenth-cent ...

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hypnosis Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.In 2015, the American Psychological ...

, and different features of awareness, as well as his public lectures on these subjects. His contributions to the field of neuroscience have earned him a number of awards, grants, and honors from the

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, the Bial Foundation, the Cogito Foundation, the European Commission, the Gyllenbergs Foundation, and the

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. His research has also been covered by major national and international news outlets such as the

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, and

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Biography

Terhune began his academic career by obtaining a bachelor's degree in psychology and an

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in Philosophy from

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in 2003. He went on to obtain a master's degree in psychology from the

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a year later, and then became a research assistant at

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's Department of Psychiatry. Terhune left that position to begin a PhD in psychology from

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, which completed in 2010. He then became a postdoctoral research fellow at the

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's Department of Experimental Psychology, where he published notable papers on

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working alongside

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. From 2015 to 2022, he lectured in statistics and coding at

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. As of 2022, Terhune is a Reader at

, heads the institution's Timing Awareness and Suggestion Laboratory. During his time, he has increased his public outreach, both by authoring articles in various publications and giving numerous public lectures.

Selected publications

Devin Terhune has a
extensive publication record
A selection of works are listed below:

References

External links

Goldsmiths Profile page
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