Curriculum Vitae for ELLIOT FREEMAN, PhD

Personal details

Name: / Elliot David Freeman
Date of birth: / 13th April 1969
Nationality: / British
Contact Addresses: / City University
School of Social Sciences, Room D407
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
Telephone: / 0207 040 0102
Fax: / 0207 040 8580
Email: /

Education

2008 / Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Brunel University
1997 / C programming, City and Guilds Level 2 Diploma. Avon and Bristol Training Associates
1992-98 / PhD Psychology, University of Bristol, Supervisor: Prof. Tom Troscianko
'Task-dependent Factors in Perceptual Grouping'
1988-92 / Degree: Bsc (tech. Hons). Applied Psychology, University of Wales, College of Cardiff
1983-87 / Highgate School, London

Academic appointments

Sept 2012 / Promotion to Senior Lecturer, City University
Sept 2009 / Lecturer in Psychology at City University. Convener of Cognitive Psychology (level II); contributor to Research Methods and Cognitive Neuroscience (Level III).
June 2007 / Lecturer in Psychology at Brunel University: convener of Quantitative Research Methods, level II; convener of Statistics and Research Methods, level I; contributor to MSc Functional Neuroimaging.
2004 to 2007 / BBSRC-funded Senior Research Fellow in the Attention laboratory of Prof. Jon Driver.
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.
2004 / RCA Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Preeti Verghese.
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute, San Francisco, USA.
2003-2004 / Bogue Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Geoff Boynton
Salk Institute, San Diego, USA.
2000-2003 / BBSRC-funded Research fellow, 'Attention and lateral interactions'.
Principle investigator: Prof. Jon Driver, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.
1999-2000 / Royal Society-funded Research Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Host: Prof. Dov Sagi.
1999 / BBSRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow, 'Modal and amodal completion'
Principle investigator: Prof. Jon Driver. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.
1994-98 / Lecturer/course coordinator in Statistics for Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
1992-98 / Teaching assistant in psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
1990-91 / Trainee Neuropsychologist, Cognitive Rehabilitation Unit, Burden Neurological Institute, Bristol

Invited talks and seminars

2016 / Invited talk at Special Session on Multisensory Integration, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, San Francisco: ‘Individual differences in multisensory integration and timing’.
2015 / Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL: ‘Individual differences in audiovisual integration and timing: the Personal Equation revisited’
EPS Jon Driver commemorative workshop, UCL: ‘Individual differences in audiovisual integration and timing: the Personal Equation revisited’
2014 / Casting Light on Sound: Joint Meeting Institute of Acoustics and the Society of Light and Lighting: ‘Individual differences in multisensory integration’
Liverpool University Department of Psychology: ‘Individual differences in multisensory integration’
Essex University Department of Psychology: ‘Individual differences in multisensory integration’
2009 / Vision@UCL seminar: ‘Putting perceptual conflicts in context’
Brunel Psychology Conference: ‘Peeling Plaids Apart’
2008 / Brunel Psychology Conference: ‘Hearing Moving Seeing: fMRI correlates’
2007 / Guest on BBC4 programme ‘Material World’
Smith-Kettlewell Institute, ‘Putting perceptual conflicts in context’
2005 / ICN methods seminar, ‘Photometry and Display Calibration’.
2005 / fMRI methods seminar, ‘General Linear Model in fMRI analysis, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL.
2004 / Royal Holloway Department of Psychology. 'Attention and context integration in early vision: lateral interactions and ambiguous motion'.
2004 / UCL Department of Psychology Vision Research Seminar. 'Attention and context integration in early vision: lateral interactions and ambiguous motion'.
2004 / Goldsmith's College Department of Psychology. 'Attention and context integration in early vision: lateral interactions and ambiguous motion'.
2004 / fMRI methods seminar, ‘Image Preprocessing’, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL.
2002 / University of Plymouth Institute of Neuroscience & School of Computing. 'Attention and contextual integration'.
2000 / IIASS meeting on 'Visual Attention Mechanisms', Vietri, Italy. 'Attentional modulation of lateral interactions'.
1998 / University of Turku, Finland. 'Pupillometry and visual search'


Doctoral research supervision & examination

2016 / Iro Ntonia ‘Modulation of lateralised responses to primary effect’: examined and pending minor revisions
2014 / Dr Alberta Ipser ‘Individual Differences in Audiovisual Integration and Timing’: completed and awarded
2014 / External examiner of Marcello Maniglia ‘Perceptual Learning of Lateral Interactions’ and Michele Vicovaro ‘Visual perception of dynamic properties and events’, University of Padua.
Current Students / Christopher Fassnidge, Iro Ntonia

Administration experience

2010-present / Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for Psychology
2008 / Co-organizer of Brunel Psychology Conference; Deputy Admissions Tutor; University committee: Academic Data Group
2006-7 / Convener of Matlab for Cognitive Neuroscience course, via UCL Graduate School
2005 / Elected researchers’ representative on the ICN group leaders’ committee
2004 / Organiser and chair of ICN internal seminar series
1992-98 / Teaching assistant in Psychology.
Responsibilities included academic and pastoral tutoring of undergraduates, including setting and marking of essays.
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
1994-98 / Lecturer/course coordinator in Statistics for Psychology.
Responsibilities included preparation of lectures and practicals, including extensive accompanying literature; computer-based testing and course evaluation.
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol

General educational experience and skills

IT / Extensive computing expertise: e.g. Programming with MATLAB, COGENT and Psychtoolbox. fMRI data analysis using SPM. Statistical analysis using SPSS. Standard PC office applications. LINUX system administration.
General / Printmaking, film and digital photography. Music: Guitar and electronic popular/jazz music composition. Languages: conversational French and Italian.
1997 / C programming, City and Guilds level 2 diploma. Avon and Bristol Training
Associates, Bristol
1993 / Image Interpretation Initiative 2nd summer school in Computation Vision and Hearing, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
1990 / Video film production, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Awards & Honours

2015 / British Academy/Leverhulme: Improving speech comprehension by delaying sound. £9959
2015 / City Research Competition: Improving speech comprehension by delaying sound. £11,914
2011-2013 / Nominations for City University Student Voice Award and award of LDC Fellowship for work on a Learning Development Project: ‘Expectation and reality in student’s satisfaction with assessment and feedback’ with Dr Stian Reimers.
2012 / City Pump-priming award: Neurostimulation effects on multisensory integration and plasticity’. Value £5000
2011 / Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship: ‘Attentional modulation of brightness filling-in’. Value £1520
2007 / Brunel BRIEF award: ‘Hearing moving seeing: A new crossmodal illusion’. Value £15000
2004 / BBSRC research grant S20366: 'Attentional Modulation of Contextual Integration in Vision'.
First author and recognized researcher. Principle investigator: Prof. Jon Driver. Value: £216,636
2004 / Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute Research Fellowship for study visit to SKERI in San Francisco.
Host: Dr. Preeti Verghese. Value: £6000
2003 / UCL Bogue fellowship for study visit to Salk Institute, San Diego.
Host Dr. Geoff Boynton. Value: £9000
2000 / BBSRC research grant 31/S13736: 'Attentional modulation of lateral interactions in early human vision'. First author and recognized researcher. Principle investigator: Prof. Jon Driver. Value: £150,000
1999, 2000 / Two Royal Society study visit grants to Weizmann Institute, Israel.
Host: Prof. Dov Sagi. Value £1500 each (personal award)
1998 / Experimental Psychology Society study visit grant to University of Turku, Finland.
Host: Dr. Jukka Hyona. Value £500 (personal award)
Grant Reviewer for / BBSRC, ESRC, Wellcome Trust, Israeli National Institute for Psychobiology
Journal Reviewer for / Current Biology, Journal of Vision, Vision Research, Frontiers, Perception, Neuroscience Letters, Journal of Neurophysiology, Proc. Roy. Soc. B., Experimental Brain Research, PLoSOne, Neuroimage and others.
Society Membership / Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience
Applied Vision Association

Publications

Freeman, E. D., & Ipser, A. (2016). Individual differences in multisensory integration and timing. Electronic Imaging, 2016(16), 1-4.
Freeman, E. D., Macaluso, E., Rees, G., and Driver, J. (2014). fMRI correlates of object-based attentional facilitation versus suppression of irrelevant stimuli, dependent on global grouping and endogenous cueing. Front. Integr. Neurosci. 8.
Freeman E.D., “GB2511909 - Method & apparatus for calibrating and correcting for neural asynchronies,” 2014. https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-ipsum/Case/ApplicationNumber/GB1400335.4
Cappelletti, M., Chamberlain, R., Freeman, E. D., Kanai, R., Butterworth, B., Price, C. J., and Rees, G. (2014). Commonalities for Numerical and Continuous Quantity Skills at Temporo-parietal Junction. J. Cogn. Neurosci., 1–14.
Freeman, E. D., Ipser, A., Palmbaha, A., Paunoiu, D., Brown, P., Lambert, C., Leff, A. & Driver, J. (2013). Sight and sound out of synch: Fragmentation and renormalisation of audiovisual integration and subjective timing. Cortex, 49(10), 2875-2887.
Bauer M, Akam T, Joseph S, Freeman E, Driver J (2012) Does visual flicker phase at gamma frequency modulate neural signal propagation and stimulus selection? Journal of Vision 12 1-10
Freeman E. D., Sterzer P, Driver J (2012) fMRI correlates of subjective reversals in ambiguous structure-from-motion. Journal of Vision 12
Cappelletti M, Freeman E. D., Butterworth B.L. (2011) Time processing in dyscalculia. Frontiers in Psychology 2 364
Leo F, Romei V, Freeman E, Ladavas E, Driver J (2011) Looming sounds enhance orientation sensitivity for visual stimuli on the same side as such sounds. Experimental Brain Research 213 193-201
Cappelletti M, Freeman E. D., Cipolotti L (2011) Numbers and time doubly dissociate Neuropsychologia 49 3078-3092
Cappelletti M, Lee H.L., Freeman E.D., Price C.J. (2010) The role of right and left parietal lobes in the conceptual processing of numbers. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22 331-346
Freeman E, Verghese P (2009) Peeling plaids apart: context counteracts cross-orientation contrast masking. PLoS One 4
Cappelletti M, Freeman E.D., Cipolotti L (2009) Dissociations and interactions between time, numerosity and space processing. Neuropsychologia 47 2732-2748
Freeman E, Driver J (2008) Direction of Visual Apparent Motion Driven Solely by Timing of a Static Sound. Current Biology 18 1262-1266
Freeman ED, Driver J (2008) Voluntary control of long-range motion integration via selective attention to context. Journal of Vision 8
Cappelletti M, Freeman E.D., Cipolotti L (2007) The middle house or the middle floor: Bisecting horizontal and vertical mental number lines in neglect. Neuropsychologia 45 2989-3000
Freeman E.D., Driver J (2006) Subjective appearance of ambiguous structure-from-motion can be driven by objective switches of a separate less ambiguous context. Vision Research 46 4007-4023
Ruff CC, Blankenburg F, Bjoertomt O, Bestmann S, Freeman E, Haynes J-D, Rees G, Josephs O, Deichmann R, Driver J (2006) Concurrent TMS-fMRI and Psychophysics Reveal Frontal Influences on Human Retinotopic Visual Cortex. Current Biology 16 1479-1488
Khoe W, Freeman E, Woldorff M.G., Mangun G.R. (2006) Interactions between attention and perceptual grouping in human visual cortex. Brain Research 1078 101-111
Freeman, E. D. (2005). Lateral Interactions between Targets and Flankers Require Attention. In L. Itti, G. Rees, & J. K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of Attention (pp. 477-484). Academic Press/Elsevier.
Freeman E, Driver J (2005) Task-dependent modulation of target-flanker lateral interactions in vision. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics 67 624-637
Khoe W, Freeman E, Woldorff M.G., Mangun G.R. (2004) Electrophysiological correlates of lateral interactions in human visual cortex. Vision Research 44 1659-1673
Freeman E, Sagi D, Driver J (2004) Configuration-specific attentional modulation of flanker - Target lateral interactions. Perception 33 181-194
Freeman E, Driver J, Sagi D, Zhaoping L (2003) Top-down modulation of lateral interactions in early vision: Does attention affect integration of the whole or just perception of the parts? Current Biology 13 985-989
Freeman E, Sagi D, Driver J (2001) Lateral interactions between targets and flankers in low-level vision depend on attention to the flankers. Nature Neuroscience 4 1032-1036
Driver J, Davis G, Russell C, Turatto M, Freeman E (2001) Segmentation, attention and phenomenal visual objects. Cognition 80 61-95
Freeman, E., Driver, J., & Sagi, D. (2001). Psychophysical measurement of attention modulation in low-level vision using the lateral-interactions paradigm. In M. Cantoni, M. Marinaro, & A. Petrosino (Eds.), Visual Attention Mechanisms (pp. 25-40). Plenum Press.
Selected Conference abstracts
Freeman, E. D., Knudsen, S., & Fassnidge, C. (2015). Hearing through your eyes: modulation of the visually-evoked auditory response by transcranial electrical stimulation. In PERCEPTION (Vol. 44, pp. 346-346.
Fassnidge, C., Cecconi-Marcotti, C., & Freeman, E. D. (2015). Hearing through your eyes: the Visually-Evoked Auditory Response. In PERCEPTION (Vol. 44, pp. 311-311).
I Ntonia, E Freeman, L Joseph, G Savva (2014) Response Efficiency: Behavioural Manifestations of an Emotion-led Subjective Experience of Duration. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences
Alberta Ipser, Vlera Agolli & Anisa Bajraktari, Elliot D Freeman (2014) Audiovisual speech comprehension is out of synch. International Multisensory Research Forum 2014
Christopher Fassnidge, Claudia Cecconi Marcotti, Elliot D. Freeman (2014) Visual masking of auditory signal detection in normally-occurring ‘hearing-motion synaesthesia’. International Multisensory Research Forum 2014
Freeman, E, Ipser, A, Kanai, R(2012) Individual differences in timing of audiovisual integration. PERCEPTION 41 (12), 1517-1517
Ipser, A., Paunoiu, D., Freeman, E.D. (2011) Telling the time with audiovisual speech and non-speech: Does the brain use multiple clocks? Seeing and Perceiving 25 (s1) 14-15
Freeman, E.D., Ipser, A. (2011) Hearing voices then seeing lips: Fragmentation and renormalisation of subjective timing in the McGurk illusion Seeing and Perceiving 25 (s1) 9-9
Freeman E, Verghese P (2010) Peeling plaids apart: Context counteracts cross-orientation contrast masking PERCEPTION 36 275
Freeman ED, Driver JS (2007) Sound drives visual apparent motion PERCEPTION 35 113
Freeman ED, Sterzer P (2006) Neural correlates of subjective rotation reversals in ambiguous structure-from-motion PERCEPTION 35 221
Ruff CC, Freeman ED, Blankenburg F, Bjoertomt S, Bestmann S, Haynes JD, Rees G, Driver J (2006) Frontal influences on human retinotopic visual cortex revealed by combining TMS with fMRI and psychophysics PERCEPTION 33 234
Freeman E, Boynton GM (2004) Subjective direction of ambiguous transparent motion is biased by veridical motion of a translucent but not opaque context PERCEPTION 31 33
Freeman ED, Driver J (2002) Attentional modulation of target-flanker lateral interactions: effects of manipulating attention to spatial and non-spatial flanker attributes PERCEPTION 30 97
Freeman ED, Driver J, Sagi D (2001) The strength and specificity of attentional modulation of lateral interactions PERCEPTION 29 46
Freeman ED, Sagi D, Driver J (2000) Gabor contrast sensitivity depends on task relevance of collinear flankers PERCEPTION 28 62
Freeman ED, Davis G, Driver J (1999) Visual search for modally and amodally completed regions PERCEPTION 47 58