The Awareness & Modulation Lab is an experimental psychology lab led by Devin Terhune, based in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London.

The central foci of our lab are how different features of awareness and perception can be altered or modulated in specific individuals or in response to different interventions. We use a range of methods from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and neuropsychiatry including EEG, pharmacological methods (nitrous oxide and psychedelics), psychophysics, and latent variable modelling.

A major focus of the lab is the use of verbal suggestions to modulate perception in various contexts (hypnosis, placebo, nocebo). Our research on awareness is primarily concerned with the induction and study of dissociative states in clinical and non-clinical samples and associated characteristics such as hallucinations and distortions in time perception.