Dear all,

Wish you all a wonderful New Year!

We are pleased to share the January 2017 Newsletter of the Timing Research Forum.

1. TRF Membership Statistics

Website:               454 members (+9.4%)

ResearchGate:     154 followers (+92.5%)

Twitter:                  178 followers (+20.3%)

Facebook:             181 followers (+19.9%)

The statistics reveal that we have a highly active research community that continues to grow! Please join us on these platforms to discuss and share research on timing and time perception.

1. 1st Conference of the Timing Research Forum (TRF1)

We are pleased to share details of the 1st Conference of TRF and announce the call for symposia and abstracts as below.

Date:          October 23-25, 2017

Venue:       University of Strasbourg, 22 Rue Descartes, Strasbourg, France

Organizers: Anne Giersch & Jenny Coull

Scientific committee:   TRF Committee Members & conference organizers

Contact: Anne Giersch – trf.strasbourg@orange.fr

Call for Symposia (deadline: May 1, 2017)

8 Symposia will be selected from submitted proposals. Each symposium must be focused on a single topic and will include 3 oral presentations of 20 minutes (+ 5 minutes questions) organized by a chairperson, who can also be a presenter. There can be 4 oral presentations if preferred, but the total duration of the symposium should not exceed 1 hour and 15 minutes.  The chairperson is responsible for submitting the symposium proposal and for recruiting speakers.  Symposia on current topics and of a multidisciplinary nature are encouraged.

Symposium proposals should include the following:

• The name, contact information, and affiliation of the symposium chairperson.
• A title
• A brief abstract describing the symposium’s objective and topics to be covered (maximum 500 words, references included).
• Up to 5 keywords.
• The title of each presentation, with a list of proposed speakers, their affiliations and contact information. For multi-author papers, please underline the presenter.
• A short abstract for each presentation (max 150 words with references)
• Abbreviations must be spelled out in full at their first use. Do not use abbreviations in the title. Use only standard abbreviations.

If your symposium proposal is not accepted, the abstracts will be automatically re-considered for poster or oral presentation.

Call for Abstracts for Talks & Posters (deadline: May 1, 2017)

There will be two short oral sessions, each containing 6 presentations of 12 minutes (+ 3 minutes for questions).  

There will be two poster sessions, and around 15 posters will be selected for oral blitz presentation (5 minutes).

Abstracts for poster and oral presentations should include the following:

• A title that clearly defines the work addressed.
• Name and affiliation of the authors.  For multi-author papers, please underline the presenter and provide their contact information.
• An abstract describing the specific goal of the study, the methods used, a summary of the results, and a conclusion.  The abstract should not exceed 300 words (references included).
• Up to 5 keywords.
• Abbreviations must be spelled out in full at their first use. Do not use abbreviations in the title. Use only standard abbreviations.
• Do not add formatting. Italic, bold, tabs or extra spaces will not appear in the final program.
• Your preference of oral or poster presentation.
• Specify whether you apply for a student travel grant (see below).

All selected abstracts and symposium proposals will be published in a special issue of the Timing and Time Perception Reviews journal.

The website for the conference will be launched soon, and will provide more details about the program, venue, as well as practical information. Abstract submission and registration will be coordinated via the website. For any queries, please contact Anne Giersch at – trf.strasbourg@orange.fr.

III. TRF Blogs

We have a number of excellent blogs reviewing recent papers on timing and time perception by a number of promising early career researchers. Please read, share, comment and discuss! If you’d also like to contribute as a blogger, please get in touch: trf@timingforum.org.

Frequency tagging indexes cortical entrainment related to temporal prediction

Bronson Harry

MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney

Controlling Time Perception using Optogenetics

Mukesh Makwana

Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India

Time-dependency in perceptual decision-making

Bharath Talluri

University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf

Visual cortex responses reflect temporal structure of continuous quasi-rhythmic sensory stimulation

Molly Henry

University of Western Ontario

Temporal statistical regularity results in a bias of perceived timing

Bharath Talluri

University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf

Mental context biases retrospective temporal judgements

Bronson Harry

MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney

Society for Neuroscience 2016

Molly Henry

University of Western Ontario

Does Sense of Smell affect Sense of Time?

Mukesh Makwana

Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India

Do beta oscillations predict the timing of upcoming stimuli?

Ryszard Auksztulewicz

Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity

Beat keeping in a Sea Lion as Coupled Oscillation: Implications for comparative understanding of human rhythm

Molly Henry

University of Western Ontario

1. Blog your paper

We would like to invite TRF members to submit short summaries of their recently published articles on timing. Articles should be no longer than 500 words and not include more than one representative figure.

Please submit your entries after your paper is published by emailing us at trf@timingforum.org. Submissions are open anytime and will be featured on the TRF blog page – https://timingforum.org/category/blog/.

1. Blog your conference

We would like to invite TRF members to write about their experience of a timing conference/meeting/workshop that they have recently attended. Submissions can highlight prominent talks/papers presented, new methods, trends and your personal views about the conference. Pictures may also be included. Submissions should be no longer than 1000 words.

Please submit your entries to trf@timingforum.org within two months from the date of the conference.

For example, see Molly Henry’s blog on the state of timing research at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference – Society for Neuroscience 2016.

1. Timing projects on ResearchGate

We would like to invite all researchers to share links to their timing projects on ResearchGate with us. We will collate information about all projects in order to share them with the TRF community on ResearchGate and beyond.

Please email us your project link at trf@timingforum.org

VII. Timing Meetings in 2017

Experimental Psychology Society on Modularity in Time Perception and Timed Behavior

January 19; Liverpool, UK

Neurosciences and Music VI: Music, Sound and Health

June 15-18; Boston, USA

Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop

July 3-5; Birmingham, UK

European Society for Cognitive Science of Music

July 31 – Aug. 4; Ghent, Belgium

1st Conference of the Timing Research Forum

October 23 – 25; Strasbourg, France

For further details on these timing meetings, please visit – https://timingforum.org/timing-meetings/.

If you are organizing or aware of any other meetings focused on timing, please let us know at trf@timingforum.org.
VII. Contributions

TRF aims to host timing related resources, so that TRF‘s website will be the one stop for everything related to timing. Currently, the TRF website has these resources: all members’ publications, timing related special issues, and books on timing, a list of meetings focused on timing, a list of timing related societies/groups, as well as code and mentoring resources.

We ask all of you to contribute to these resources. Please send us (email at trf@timingforum.org) any omissions that we might have or any new information that should be added.

TRF is based on the idea of sharing information freely between its’ members so as to advance timing research and group collaborations. Thus, we encourage all of you to share with us any of the above resources that you might have and/or suggest new resources that we should add and circulate within the community.

VIII. Suggestions

We thank all of you for supporting this community and hope that you will continue to do so in the future. As we continuously emphasize, TRF is meant to be open to all timing researchers with the aim of sharing ideas and advancing the current state of the art. Thus, we are open to any suggestions or ideas that will help TRF grow and advance.

We have already established many ways (website, mailing list, resources etc.) to discuss the current state and the future of TRF and these tools will become more active in the coming months. We look  forward to your feedback!

With best wishes,

Sundeep Teki                                          

University of Oxford                                   

sundeepteki.org                                        

&

Argiro Vatakis

Cognitive Systems Research Institute

argirovatakis.com

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Timing Research Forum

Web:            timingforum.org

Email:          trf@timingforum.org

Twitter:        twitter.com/timingforum

Facebook:   facebook.com/timingresearchforum

The School of Psychology, University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK),  is offering fully-funded opportunities for doctoral students for 2017/18 entry (https://www.uea.ac.uk/psychology/research-degrees). One of the selected topic is on interval timing (under the supervision of Dr Zhenguang Cai). The studentship will cover the tuition fee and stipend and is eligible to UK, EU and international students. The deadline for application is 30 January 2017.

University of East Anglia is a research-intensive university located in the beautiful city of Norwich, east of England. In the 2016 National Student Survey, the university was ranked joint 3rd out of all English mainstream universities, with the School of Psychology receiving an overall satisfaction rating of 92 per cent. Guardian University Guide 2017 has ranked the School of Psychology in the Top 10 Psychology departments in the UK.

Interested applicants please email Zhenguang Cai (Zhenguang.cai@uea.ac.uk) for inquiry about the topic on timing and Dr Martin Doherty (Martin.Doherty@uea.ac.uk) for other matters.

TRF UPDATE

Our membership is growing strongly and we have now surpassed 415 members!

We have now expanded to 148 (+12%) followers on Twitter and 151 (+12%) subscribers on Facebook, respectively. We would like to acknowledge the efforts of our new Social Media Manager, Bowen Fund in spreading the work of TRF through social media. Join us and share your work and news!

TRF CONFERENCE

We are pleased to confirm the dates for the first TRF conference that will be held from October 23-25, 2017 at the University of Strasbourg, France. Led by Anne Giersch and Jenny Coull, conference organization and planning is underway. We will soon launch the conference website and announce the Scientific Program Committee, as well as further details about the meeting.

TRF BLOGS

We are pleased to share the first series of blogs written by TRF’s Associate Members. Please find below the links to the respective articles. You are welcome to discuss the article in the comments section of each page.

1. Spontaneous eye blinks may explain moment to moment changes in time perception.

https://timingforum.org/spontaneous-eye-blinks-may-explain-moment-to-moment-changes-in-time-perception/

Review of:

Terhune DB, Sullivan JG, Simola JM (2016) Time dilates after spontaneous blinking. Curr Biol 26:R459–R460.

Author:

Mukesh Makwana

Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad

2. Subsecond timing relies on dynamic excitability of cortical circuits.

Subsecond timing relies on dynamic excitability of local cortical circuits

Review of:

Goel A, Buonomano DV (2016) Temporal Interval Learning in Cortical Cultures Is Encoded in Intrinsic Network Dynamics. Neuron 91:320–327.

Author:

Ryszard Auksztulewicz

Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity

3. Does judgment certainty influence systematic under-reproduction of time?

https://timingforum.org/does-judgment-certainty-influence-systematic-under-reproduction-of-time/

Review of:

Riemer M, Rhodes D, Wolbers T (2016) Systematic Underreproduction of Time Is Independent of Judgment Certainty. Neural Plast 2016:6890674.

Author:

Bharath Talluri

University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf

4. Structural coupling between auditory and motor networks is associated with sensorimotor synchronisation performance.

https://timingforum.org/structural-coupling-between-auditory-and-motor-networks-is-associated-with-sensorimotor-synchronisation-performance/

Review of:

Blecher T, Tal I, Ben-Shachar M (2016) White matter microstructural properties correlate with sensorimotor synchronization abilities. NeuroImage 138:1–12.

Author:

Bronson Harry

MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development

BLOG YOUR PAPER

We would like to invite TRF members to submit short summaries of their recently published articles on timing. Articles should be no longer than 500 words and not include more than one representative figure. Please submit your entries after your paper is published by emailing us at trf@timingforum.org. Submissions are open anytime and will be featured on the TRF blog page – https://timingforum.org/category/blog/.

BLOG YOUR CONFERENCE

We would like to invite TRF members to write about their experience of a timing conference/meeting/workshop that they have recently attended. Submissions can highlight prominent talks/papers presented, new methods, trends and your personal views about the conference. Pictures may also be included. Submissions should be no longer than 1000 words. Please submit your entries to trf@timingforum.org within two months from the date of the conference.

To kickstart this new initiative, we request participants at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience to share their views and highlights from timing research from the meeting.

TRF on ResearchGate

TRF is now accessible on ResearchGate as a project and has >80 followers already!  

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Timing-Research-Forum

Everyone is invited to follow the page to receive regular scientific updates from TRF. Please share and join!

Timing Research at SfN

Several TRF members will be attending the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Please feel free to share your abstract links, live updates, pictures etc. with us on Twitter (use #SfN16TRF).

Some relevant timing sessions are highlighted below –

Human Cognition: Temporal Processing I

http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/index.html#!/4071/session/1232

Human Cognition: Temporal Processing II

http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/index.html#!/4071/session/1236

Temporal factors of Crossmodal integration

http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/index.html#!/4071/session/506

Neural circuits for timing, temporal processing, and sequences

http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/index.html#!/4071/session/716

MODULARITY IN TIMING WORKSHOP – January 19, 2017, Liverpool

Ruth Ogden and Alexis Makin are hosting a one day workshop in Liverpool (UK) to explore modularity in time perception. The aim of the workshop is to explore whether current research supports the idea of single or multiple timers. Abstracts for talks and posters are being accepted until the end of November.

Further information and registration can be found at: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/conferences/eps-workshop.

Postgraduate students and post-docs wishing to attend can apply to the Experimental Psychology Society’s Grindley Grant scheme to fund travel and accommodation: http://www.eps.ac.uk/index.php/grindley-grants-for-conference-attendance

Please contact Ruth or Alexis if you have any questions r.s.ogden@ljmu.ac.uk

CONTRIBUTE TO TRF

TRF aims to host timing related resources, so that TRF‘s website will be the one stop for everything related to timing. Currently, the TRF website has these resources: all members’ publications, timing related special issues, and books on timing, a list of meetings focused on timing, a list of timing related societies/groups, as well as code and mentoring resources.

The University of Tartu announced an open call for two PhD positions in Department of Philosophy, one of which is on ‘Experience of time’ (supervisor Bruno Mölder):

Time seems to enter our experiences in various ways: the events we experience have temporal properties, e.g., when we experience things changing or moving; experiences themselves stand in temporal relations to each other and so on. This leads to several philosophical issues concerning the experience of time:
–   How is the time in experience related to objective time?
–   How is the time in experience related to the temporal properties of brain processes that underpin experience?
–   Does consciousness have some kind of temporal structure?
The prospective candidates must show potential to make a significant contribution to philosophical debates related to such themes. Depending on the nature of the project, background in psychology or metaphysics is advisable.

Admitted PhD students will be enrolled in the Philosophy PhD programme. The nominal study period is 2017-2021, starting from the beginning of February 2017.

Research and studies will be funded by the programme DoRa Plus (European Regional Development Fund). Full time PhD student will be receiving a monthly grant of 422 EUR during the nominal period of studies (4 years) and annual travel allowance (return travel between home and Tartu).

Application deadline: December 1, 2016.

All particulars about the research topics, eligibility conditions, application materials and assessment criteria available here: https://www.ut.ee/en/2-phd-positions-programme-philosophy

Call for Participation
16th Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop (RPPW) 2017
3rd-5th July 2017
Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, UK, B4 7XG.
http://dmtlab.bcu.ac.uk/rppw2017/

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Douglas Eck – Google, Inc.
Peter Keller – MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University

About
The 16th RPPW will be held at the Digital Media Technology Lab in Birmingham City University’s Millennium Point Campus in Birmingham, UK from the 3rd to the 5th of July 2017. RPPW is an international biannual event that brings researchers from a range of disciplines together to engage in discussions about the scientific study of rhythm. Rhythm is at the core of a wide range of human tasks, from speaking and dancing, to walking and synchronising with others. The workshop is traditionally centred around psychology and neuroscience, however this year we are additionally encouraging participation from the Music Information Retrieval Community to encourage cross-pollination and interdisciplinary collaboration. The workshop will host oral presentations, posters and tutorials with satellite activities.

Call for submissions
Presenters are asked to submit abstracts of up to 500 words in length plus references for poster and oral presentation. Abstracts will be peer reviewed by the paper committee and successful applications will be published online. The submission portal (http://dmtlab.bcu.ac.uk/rppw2017/authors/) will open on the 1st of November and will close on the 15th of January 2017. Short proposals for tutorials and workshops should be sent by email to ryan.stables@bcu.ac.uk.

Topics
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Rhythm and synchronisation
• Synchrony and order perception
• Multisensory temporal processing
• Acquisition of time knowledge and temporal concepts
• Timing and memory, attention, emotion and metacognition
• Beat tracking and onset detection
• Music Structure analysis
• Expressive timing and performance modelling
• Ensemble or group performance
• Entrainment
• Rhythm in neurorehabilitation

Important Dates
1st November 2016: Submission system opens
15th January 2017: Deadline for abstract submissions
30th January 2017: Notification of acceptance
2nd July 2017: Pre-conference reception
3rd-5th July 2017: Conference

Bursaries
We are planning on offering student bursaries, more information in due course.

Sponsorship
If you would be interested in sponsoring the event, please contact ryan.stables@bcu.ac.uk.

Dear all,

We are pleased to share the second newsletter of the Timing Research Forum (TRF).

1. TRF UPDATE

We are proud to claim a membership that is now ~400 members strong! The website is very popular with ~12000 total hits.

We have now expanded to 132 followers on Twitter and 135 on Facebook. Both social media pages are being actively used by the members to share timing related papers, publications, calls for conferences and symposia, request for experimental participants, and other related updates. Join us and share your work and news!

1. TRF CONFERENCE

We are pleased to confirm the dates for the first TRF conference that will be held from October 23-25, 2017 at the University of Strasbourg, France. Anne Giersch and Jenny Coull are the hosts and have already shown excellent initiative and progress with the organizational aspects of the conference. We look forward to working with them to finalize the format of the conference program. We will disseminate updates and the conference website as soon as we have them, till then please save the dates for the 1st TRF conference.

III. TRF ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Our call for TRF Associate Members in the previous newsletter received a tremendous response and we are happy to announce their names below.

TRF BLOGGERS

TRF Bloggers will review at least one timing paper of their choice and blog about it on the TRF website. Each blog post will be open for comments and further discussions so we look forward to your contribution and hope to have lively and thoughtful discussions!

Molly J. Henry

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Bharath Chandra Talluri

PhD Student

Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Mukesh Makwana

PhD Student

Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, India

Ryszard Auksztulewicz

Postdoctoral Fellow

Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, UK

Bronson Harry

Postdoctoral Fellow

MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Australia

TRF SOCIAL MEDIA & NEWS MANAGER

The candidate will be responsible for sharing timing related news including:

1. a) publication of new papers, journal special issues, and books
2. b) timing events, conferences, workshops etc.
3. c) grants and funding opportunities
4. d) job openings at the doctoral, postdoctoral, and faculty level
5. e) encouraging TRF members and attendees at timing conferences to tweet

Bowen Fung

PhD Student

Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia

TRF MAILING LIST MODERATOR

The mailing list moderator will ensure the approval of member posts and will keep the TRF mailing list clean from SPAM or unwanted emails.

Nadine Schlichting

PhD Student

Time Perception Laboratory, University of Groningen, Netherlands

1. TIMING MEETINGS

Please visit – https://timingforum.org/timing-meetings/ for an updated list of timing meetings.

1. TRF’s RESOURCES AND YOUR CONTRIBUTION

TRF aims to host timing related resources, so that TRF‘s website will be the one stop for everything related to timing. Currently, the TRF website has these resources: all members’ publications, timing related special issues, and books on timing, a list of meetings focused on timing, a list of timing related societies/groups, as well as code and mentoring resources.

We ask all of you to contribute to these resources. Please send us (by emailing us at trf@timingforum.org) any omissions that we might have or any new information that should be added.

TRF is based on the idea of sharing information freely between its’ members so as to advance timing research and group collaborations. Thus, we encourage all of you to share with us any of the above resources that you might have and/or suggest new resources that we should add and circulate within the community.

1. FEEDBACK

We thank all of you for supporting this community and hope that you will continue to do so in the future. As we continuously emphasize, TRF is meant to be open to all timing researchers with the aim of sharing

ideas and advancing the current state of the art. Thus, we are open to any suggestions or ideas that will help TRF grow and advance. We have already established many ways (website, mailing list, resources etc.) to

discuss the current state and the future of TRF and these tools will become more active in the coming months. We are looking forward to all of your feedback!

With best wishes,

Sundeep Teki                        &                  Argiro Vatakis

University of Oxford                                   Cognitive Systems Research Institute

sundeepteki.org                                         argirovatakis.com

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27th-29th June 2017

Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, UK

Call for TRF Associate Members

TRF is a community by us for us. It’s success, therefore, is dependent on the work we do as a community to maintain, promote, and advance it. We are ready, therefore, to open up to the community to more people for their involvement, help, and contribution. This is the first call for actively engaging in TRF’s activities.

We are opening up Associate Member positions meant for junior timing researchers like graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The details of the open positions are:

TRF Social Media & News Manager

TRF has built a strong social media presence (on Facebook and Twitter) and would like to provide it’s members with latest information and news related to timing research. The position, therefore, will require the candidate to keep track of timing related news including:

1. a) publication of new papers, journal special issues, and books
2. b) timing events, conferences, workshops etc.
3. c) grants and funding opportunities
4. d) job openings at the doctoral, postdoctoral, and faculty level.

This position requires daily commitment, experience with social media, and well-rounded interest and interaction with timing-related information.

TRF Mailing list Moderator: 

TRF aims to establish and maintain a highly interactive community. This interaction will partially be accomplished through a mailing list. This mailing list will be for members only and will aim to:

1. a) Keep TRF members informed of news, events etc. and
2. b) Open discussions between members for various timing related issues.

It is pertinent, therefore, to maintain a mailing list that is free from junk or other spam information. The Moderator will have to regularly approve or reject incoming messages. This position requires daily commitment and some experience with Majordomo is preferred but not required.

TRF Bloggers:

TRF would like to appoint interested graduate students/postdoctoral researchers to write short summaries of latest papers in timing research for the official website. You can choose any paper of your choice and be required to write about at least one paper per month.

How to submit your application

If you are interested in any of the above openings, please email us at trf@timingforum.org with subject line of the position you wish to apply for as well as a copy of your CV by September 15, 2016.

Liverpool John Moores University are pleased to host an Experimental Psychology Society workshop examining Modularity in Time Perception and Timed Behaviour on 19 January 2017. The one day meeting will bring together experts and interested parties to discuss how time and time behaviour is represented in the brain. The day will include a series of oral presentations and a poster session.

If you would like to present your work (oral or poster) please follow the instructions on the Abstract submission page.

The workshop is a free event. We do however ask that you register your attendance.

Register for the workshop

The workshop is being organised by Ruth Ogden and Alexis Makin. Please contact them if you have any questions.