PhD theses

The TRF Timing PhD theses database offers a repository of recent graduate students’ doctoral research on timing and time perception.

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Year	Title	Author	Supervisor	Topic	Keywords
2020	Biasing Temporal Performance of Pigeons and Humans	Renata Cambraia	Armando Machado & Marco Vasoncelos	Time and conditioning/learning	Timing, biasing, payoff, base rate, pigeon, human
2019	Perceptual functions of auditory neural oscillation entrainment	Andrew Chang	Laurel J. Trainor	Rhythm and sequence, temporal attention	Neural entrainment; Rhythm; Audition; Electroencephalography (EEG)
2019	Worlds of Musics: Cognitive Ethnomusicological Inquiries on Experience of Time and Space in Human Music-making	Yong Jeon Cheong	Udo Will	Order and simultaneity	spatiotemporal processing, audio tactile, music training, peripersonal space
2019	The nature of sensory time perception – centralised or distributed?	Aysha Motala	David Whitaker	Duration, Rhythm and sequence	psychophysics, audio, visual, tactile, touch, rhythm processing, adaptation
2019	Time Experience and Judgement in Depression: A Theory of Isomorphic General Relativity (TIGR)	Lachlan Kent	Britt Klein	Duration, Timing perception and neuropsychiatric disorders, Time consciousness	time dilation; depression; general relativity; autobiographical memory; time production
2018	Sound Guides Acton and Action Scaffolds Sound Perception	Jessica Marie Ross	Ramesh Balasubramaniam	Duration Rhythm and sequence	Sensorimotor, Auditory Perception, Timing, Motor Planning, Balance, Postural Control
2018	Role of Intention and Prediction in Time Perception	Mukesh Makwana	Narayanan Srinivasan	Duration	Intention; Intentional action; duration perception; intentional binding; prediction; self & time perception
2018	A Neuropsychological Analysis of Temporal Perception through the Lifespan	Sagar Lad	Erlene Rosowsky	Duration, Timing perception and development, Time and conditioning/learning	Cognitive psychology, temporal perception, Neuropsychology
2018	Detecting the adaptation of listeners' respiration to heard music	Finn Upham	Morwaread Mary Farbood	Order and simultaneity, Temporal attention, Speech and music	Respiration, Coordination, Phase alignment, Music, Embodiment, Psychophysiology
2017	The Rescorla-Wagner Drift-Diffusion Model	Andre Luzardo	Eduardo Alonso	Time and conditioning/learning	timing, conditioning
2017	Implicit and explicit temporal order in the structuring of the conscious “now”	Laetitia Grabot	Virginie van Wassenhove	Order and simultaneity Time consciousness	temporal order perception, postdiction, neural oscillations
2017	The Psychological Investigation of Subjective Time – New concepts and Contemporary Research Methods	Sven Thoenes	Heiko Hecht	Duration Time perception and neuropsychiatric disorders Time consciousness	time perception, temporal processing, depression, schizophrenia, counting, interpersonal, mental time line
2017	Etiological models of problematic alcohol consumption among Francophone college students: Personality, Temporality and Motivation	Tianna Loose	Didier Acier ; Ghassan El-Baalbaki	Order and simultaneity Rhythm and sequence Timing perception and development	alcohol, student, France, Québec, personality, temporality, drinking motives, mediation
2017	Evaluation and training of rhythmic skills via new technologies	Valentin Bégel	Simone Dalla Bella	Rhythm and sequence	beat perception, synchronization
2017	The syntactic side of Time: processing Adverb-Verb Temporal Agreement	Nicoletta Biondo	Francesco Vespignani	Speech and music	temporal concord, temporal adverbs, tense, psycholinguistics
2016	On the origin of visual temporal-order perception by means of attentional selection	Jan Tünnermann	Ingrid Scharlau	Order and simultaneity Temporal attention	temporal order, temporal attention
2015	Temporal properties of rehearsal in auditory-verbal short-term memory	Rebecca A. Gilbert	Tom Hartley	Order and simultaneity, Rhythm and sequence, Temporal attention, Speech and music, Timing perception and development, Timing perception and neuropsychiatric disorders	short-term memory, rehearsal, rhythm, auditory timing, serial order
2013	The Role of Clock and Memory Processes in the Timing of Fear Cues in Humans	Erich K. Grommet	Bruce L. Brown	Duration	temporal bisection; emotion
2012	Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience	Erik Christensen	Lars Ole Bonde	Temporal attention Time consciousness	Music listening, Musical time, Musical space, Phenomenology, Music therapy, Neuroscience
2007	Estimacion y memoria de secuencias temporales	Oscar Zamora Arevalo	Arturo Bouzas Riaño	Temporal attention, time and conditioning/learning	Temporal bisection, memory, sequences durations, pigeons
2001	Duration Sensation in Relation to the Factors of Autocorrelation Function of Sound Stimuli	Kazi Saifuddin	Yoichi Ando	Duration	Duration sensation, Autocorrelation function
2018	Perturbations in The Arrow of Time: Computational and Procedural Dissociations of Timing and Non-Timing Processes	Carter Daniels	Federico Sanabria	Time and conditioning/learning	Interval Timing, Motivation, Behavioral Systems, Response Initiation, Pre-feeding
2018	From brain imaging to data collection in daily life : towards an integrated understanding of relationships beteween cognition, emotional experiences, time perception and symptoms of schizophrenia	Maud Dupuy	Bernard N'Kaoua & Joel David Swendsen	Duration, Timing perception and neuropsychiatric disorders	Schizophrenia Ecological Momentary Assessment Magnetic resonance imaging Cognition Emotions Time perception
2019	Time & Other Dimensions	Nadine Schlichting	Hedderik van Rijn	Time consciousness	interval timing, time & space processing, time & numerosity processing
2020	Adaptive timing	Atser Damsma	Hedderik van Rijn	Duration, Rhythm and sequence, Temporal attention	Time perception; Rhythm; EEG; Pupil dilation
2020	Context Matters: Memories of Prior Times	Sarah C. Maass	Hedderik van Rijn	Timing perception and development/aging	Context; Aging; Bayesian Modeling; MCI
2006	Neural Representations of Intermodal Attention	Jonas Vibell	Kia Nobre & Charles Spence	Order and simultaneity, Temporal attention, Time consciousness	Temporal order judgments, spatial attention, attention to sensory modalities, ERPs
2019	Time Experience and Judgement in Depression: A Theory of Isomorphic General Relativity (TIGR)	Lachlan Kent	Britt Klein	Duration, Timing perception and neuropsychiatric disorders, Time consciousness	time dilation; depression; general relativity; autobiographical memory; time production