Terhune began his academic career by obtaining a bachelor's degree in psychology and an
honours degree in Philosophy from
Concordia University in
Montreal, Canada in 2003. He went on to obtain a master's degree in psychology from the
University of Liverpool a year later, and then became a research assistant at
Boston University's Department of Psychiatry. Terhune left that position to begin a PhD in psychology from
Lund University, which completed in 2010. He then became a postdoctoral research fellow at the
University of Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology, where he published notable papers on
synesthesia working alongside
Roi Cohen Kadosh. From 2015 to 2022, he lectured in statistics and coding at
Goldsmiths, University of London. As of 2022, Terhune is a Reader at
King's College London, 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==