Elliot Freeman

Dr. Elliot Freeman is a Senior Lecturer and Admissions Tutor in the Department of Psychology at City, University of London, within the School of Social Sciences. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Bristol in 1998 and completed postdoctoral research at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, before holding a lectureship at Brunel University and joining City University in 2009.

His research expertise lies in cognitive neuroscience and perception, with a focus on:

• Cross-modal integration
• Synaesthesia (particularly the Visually-Evoked Auditory Response)
• Visual perception and attention
• Perceptual grouping
• Individual differences in audiovisual timing
• Numerical cognition

His recent publications reveal a strong trend in multisensory integration, especially how visual motion can evoke auditory sensations and how sight and sound are subjectively desynchronized across individuals. He employs psychophysics, fMRI, EEG, and brain stimulation (TMS, tES) to explore the neural mechanisms underlying these perceptual phenomena. His work challenges traditional views of sensory synchrony and proposes the 'temporal renormalization' theory.

Dr. Freeman has received recognition through media coverage in outlets such as New Scientist and Mail Online for his research on synaesthesia and sensory perception.

He actively supervises PhD students, including Dr. Alberta Ipser, Dr. Iro Ntonia, and Christopher Fassnidge, and teaches courses in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. His lab investigates how attention modulates visual processing and how brain regions interact during multisensory tasks.