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The University of Warwick is seeking to appoint a full-time, 2-year postdoctoral research fellow based at the Department of Philosophy, as part of the interdisciplinary research project ‘Time: Between Metaphysics and Psychology’, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Further information is available at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AUH853/research-fellow-78418-086/

The successful candidate will be a member of the research project team, together with the Principal Investigator Professor Christoph Hoerl (Philosophy, Warwick), the Co-Investigator Professor Teresa McCormack (Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast), and a further postdoctoral research fellow in psychology, to be appointed in January 2018.

The overarching aim of the project is to provide an empirically informed critical examination of the relationship between our everyday understanding of time, and time as typically understood within modern science. Philosophers often claim that there is a deep gulf between common sense and science when it comes to how each of them understands what time is. Specifically, they are assumed to involve radically different commitments regarding the metaphysics of time. The project aims to investigate the extent to which research on the psychology of time actually bears this out, or might indeed also point to ways of bridging this perceived gulf.

The project will start in January 2017. Planned project activities include a series of workshops and public engagement activities, as well as collaborations with a range of performing arts groups.

Full-time post doc and PhD positions are available in the Brain Attention and Time Lab of Dr. Ayelet N. Landau at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Initial appointment will be for one year with the option to renew annually up to 4 years. Preferred starting date: October 2016

The lab’s core research areas include the guidance of attention and temporal processing and their underlying neural mechanisms. As cognitive neuroscientists we try to construe models of cognition and examine them using both in perception and in physiology. The positions are part of two externally funded projects focused on:

(1)    Fluctuations in attention and rhythmic attentional sampling.

(2)    Neural mechanisms of interval timing.

Both research programs examine the role of brain rhythms in cognition. In the lab, we measure perception in different modalities (tactile, visual and auditory) together with non-invasive physiology (MEG/EEG) and eye-tracking. You can read about the research and the lab here.

We are seeking a highly qualified post doc with a doctorate in a relevant field (e.g., Psychology, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science) and shared interests in the core research areas described above. The researcher, ideally, should have extensive experience with EEG/MEG methodology and neural oscillations measurement. Experience with other techniques – such as fMRI, computational modeling, etc. – is also welcome but not required.

In addition, we are looking for strong candidates for a funded PhD studentship. The Hebrew University offers several training opportunities in different departments. The successful candidate will be competitive for one of the flagship programs (psychology, cognitive science or neuroscience) and will have demonstrated experience in research from their post-bac or BA education (as research assistants or honors students). Knowledge of programming is an advantage.

For both positions, a passion and a commitment to science, strong social skills, trouble shooting skills and fast learning abilities are a requirement.

Interested candidates should send a CV, a brief statement of research interests, and the names and contact details of two academic references to ayelet.landau@huji.ac.il preferably by September 15^th. Applications will be considered until the positions are filled.

Dear all,

Thank you for joining the Timing Research Forum (TRF).

We are pleased to share the very first TRF newsletter that will be shared on the first day of every month. The aim of the newsletter is to share regular updates about TRF as well as news from the field of timing research.

TRF update

To update you on our progress – since the launch on June 17, we are now almost ~350 members strong [see https://timingforum.org/about/members/] and growing every day. The TRF website has received more than 8600 website hits: an average of 200 hits/day. We have also put together a variety of resources including a list of special issues and books on timing (including cover images; compiled by Warren Meck), a list of timing meetings and conferences, mentoring resources and soon we shall also host code. TRF is also active on social media with ~100 followers on both Twitter and Facebook.

TRF Committee

The TRF committee consists of 20 members, both senior as well as junior scientists, from 10 different countries, with expertise in various aspects of timing research in humans as well as animal models.

Fuat Balci, Turkey

Jennifer Coull, France

Dean Buonomano, USA

Anne Giersch, France

Max Di Luca, UK

Tim Griffiths, UK

Jessica Grahn, Canada

Marjan Jahanshahi, UK

Deborah Harrington, USA

Sonja Kotz, Netherlands

Mehrdad Jazayeri, USA

Hugo Merchant, Mexico

Warren Meck, USA

Marshall Hussain Shuler, USA

Joseph Paton, Portugal

Sundeep Teki, UK

Hedderik van Rijn, Netherlands

Argiro Vatakis, Greece

Virginie van Wassenhove, France

Marc Wittmann, Germany

III. TRF Conference

We are also pleased to share with you that the first TRF conference will be held in October 2017 in Strasbourg, France under the stewardship of Anne Giersch and Jenny Coull. Further details to follow.

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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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.

Timing meetings

Please visit this page to view the latest announcements of meetings and conferences relevant for timing –  https://timingforum.org/timing-meetings/

VII. Feedback and suggestions to shape the future of TRF

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

We are pleased to share an article recently published in Frontiers in Neuroscience [download] that led to the creation of TRF by Sundeep Teki and Argiro Vatakis. The abstract is reproduced below –

Time is an important dimension of brain function, but little is yet known about the underlying cognitive principles and neurobiological mechanisms. The field of timing and time perception has witnessed tremendous growth and multidisciplinary interest in the recent years with the advent of modern neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches. In this article, I used a data mining approach to analyze the timing literature published by a select group of researchers (n = 202) during the period 2000–2015 and highlight important reviews as well as empirical articles that meet the criterion of a minimum of 100 citations. The qualifying articles (n = 150) are listed in a table along with key details such as number of citations, names of authors, year and journal of publication as well as a short summary of the findings of each study. The results of such a data-driven approach to literature review not only serve as a useful resource to any researcher interested in timing, but also provides a means to evaluate key papers that have significantly influenced the field and summarize recent progress and popular research trends in the field. Additionally, such analyses provides food for thought about future scientific directions and raises important questions about improving organizational structures to boost open science and progress in the field. I discuss exciting avenues for future research that have the potential to significantly advance our understanding of the neurobiology of timing, and propose the establishment of a new society, the Timing Research Forum, to promote open science and collaborative work within the highly diverse and multidisciplinary community of researchers in the field of timing and time perception.

The list of the top 150 most cited articles is available as a JPG.

 

 

Submission deadline: October 15, 2016

The “Neuromusic” Community (researchers, clinicians, therapists, educators and musicians) is invited to submit proposals for the Symposia. These should be organized around a specific topic related to the conference theme of “Music, Sound and Health” with special emphasis on development.

Subthemes may include for example: “Music and Language Skills”, “Music and Motor Skills”, “Music and Memory”, “Auditory Processing”, “Auditory-Motor Interactions”, “Brain Plasticity”, “Music Intervention Programmes”, “Music Technology”, “Embodied Learning”, “Musical Disorders and Musicians Disorders”, “Music Education”, “Cross-Cultural Studies”.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and selected on the basis of merit, interest to the research community and relevance to the overall theme of the conference. The Scientific Committee may ask to combine proposals if there is significant overlap.

Proposals should be sent by e-mail to: neuromusic@fondazione-mariani.org by 15 October, 2016.

Each scientist can only be included in one symposium, either as proposer or a participant. Senior post doctoral fellows, but not PhD students, may be included as speakers in symposia. Each Symposium may involve 3 to 4 speakers (maximum – including the chair) who have made significant research contributions to their field, 15 minutes per presentation, and should be organized to allow 20 minutes discussion time per symposium.
Proposals should include:

a. Title and aim of the Symposium in relation to the conference theme* (max. 200 words each)
b. Abstracts of each proposed talk (max. 50 words each)
c. Confirmation of each speaker’s availability.

Speaker benefits: the registration fee will be waived for speakers and chairmen, and a contribution towards accommodation and travel expenses will be determined after acceptance of the proposal.
Deadlines for poster-abstracts will be 15 January 15, 2017. Poster presentations will be a prominent part of the meeting. More details will be provided in the fall.

Friday 2nd September 2016 – Saturday 3rd September 2016 at University of Bristol

The conference will explore the phenomenology and psychology of temporal experience. A sense of the passage of time forms an integral part of much, perhaps all, of our experiences, memories, and our anticipatory action. It is certainly arguable that temporal experience structures the way we understand ourselves, others, causation, and processes involving persistence or change in the external world. We will consider interdisciplinary questions concerning temporality, data from neuroscience relating to time perception (and distortion), and psychological theories or empirical studies relating to subjective experience of time in different contexts. Please see the call for papers for further information.

Keynote Speakers

Dan Lloyd (Trinity)
Sylvie Droit-Volet (Blaise Pascal)
Catherine Jones (Cardiff)

Who is the course intended for?

Researchers and students with an interest in the topic from all levels of academia and from any discipline

Call for Submissions

We are no longer accepting submissions for this event. Submissions closed at 12:00 midday on Friday 22nd April 2016.

Early Bird registration will be open until 9.00am on Monday 1st August 2016.
Registration fees can be found on the booking form. If you have any queries please contact us via the event hotline on 01332 224507

From Dr. Warrick Roseboom:

We are excited to announce and open submissions for the Time in Tokyo meeting 2016, to be held on October 11-12th 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. This meeting aims to provide a setting for the leading researchers on temporal perception and experience to present and openly discuss their recent progress on this fundamental issue.
The scope of potential submissions encompasses all disciplines interested in perception and experience of time and we expect to include, though are not limited to, human and animal behavioural and neuroscientific, artificial systems, and philosophical approaches. We will soon announce several key guest speakers.

The meeting will consist of both talk and poster presentations and will have no registration fee. Submissions should be via email to: time.in.tokyo@gmail.com. For those who wish to attend but require financial assistance to do so, limited funding is available and can be discussed with the organising committee before or at submission.

Dates

11th-12th October 2016

Location

University of Tokyo, Komaba Research Campus, ENOS hall

Planned Speakers

Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex)

Ryota Kanai (Araya Brain Imaging)

Jun Tani (KAIST)

Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo)

Shigeru Kitazawa (Osaka University)

(more to follow…)

Contacts

Abstract submissions: time.in.tokyo AT gmail.com (Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Specify if you would prefer to be considered for a talk or poster only)

Any other queries : time.in.tokyo AT gmail.com or wjroseboom AT gmail.com or k.suzuki AT sussex.ac.uk.

A post-doctoral position is available at Bretagne on spatio-temporal dynamics of functional connectivity using fMRI and EEG. Act quickly as the deadline is on July 17th! More details here.

Submission deadline: September 15^th 2016

Timing and time perception are fundamental aspects of cognition and social behavior. Even simple classical conditioning depends on getting the timing right, and poor timing can lead to feeling “out of sync” and excluded in social situations. On the other hand, timing and time perception can also be heavily influenced by cognitive and emotional processes that change throughout the lifespan.

The journals Timing & Time Perception (hosting empirical papers) and Timing & Time Perception Reviews (hosting review papers) will publish joint special issues on the development and aging of these important functions. Papers may focus either on a specific life stage (infancy, childhood, adolescence, maturity) or examine developmental differences across the lifespan. Research may focus on healthy or pathological populations, and either humans or nonhumans. Submissions taking a longitudinal perspective that allows examination of intra-individual change are especially encouraged.

Potential topics include but are not limited to developmental differences/changes in:

• Interval timing
• Rhythm and synchronization
• Synchrony and order perception
• Multisensory temporal processing
• Circadian influences
• Acquisition of time knowledge
• Acquisition of temporal concepts
• Timing and memory, attention, processing speed, or metacognition
• Timing and emotion or social context
• Timing and action
• Timing and counting, number, or space
• Timing and music

Letters of inquiry regarding whether a specific topic/paper idea may fit with theme of the issue can be emailed to the guest editors (below).

Guest Editors:

Sylvie Droit-Volet, Laboratoire de psychologie sociale et cognitive (CNRS, UMR 6024), Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Sylvie.DROIT-VOLET@univ-bpclermont.fr

Cindy Lustig, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United-States

clustig@umich.edu

Argiro Vatakis, Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Athens, Greece argiro.vatakis@gmail.com

Submission procedure:

Submission deadline: September 15^th 2016

• Empirical papers should be submitted at Timing & Time Perception.
  • Submission website: http://www.editorialmanager.com/timebrill/.
• Review papers should be submitted at Timing & Time Perception Reviews.
  • Submission website: http://rjh.ub.rug.nl/ttpr/index.

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue it is important to select “Special Issue: Timing and Development” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Also make sure to select one of the editors listed above.

Author guidelines for both journals can be found here: http://www.brill.com/files/brill.nl/specific/authors_instructions/TIME.pdf

Standard peer review/revision process will be followed.

Want to see your design on the cover of a journal on timing?

Have an awesome design on timing and time perception?

Then, send us your ideas!

Timing & Time Perception (http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/timing-time-perception) is ready to refresh its cover by selecting a new design from people inspired and/or interested in timing. The theme is general on timing and time perception and the design can be a sketch, a photograph, artistic impressions….anything that comes out of your inspiration on the theme.

The deadline for submissions is September 15^th, 2016 and the three highest-voted designs will be announced on November 1^st, 2016. All three designs along with their descriptions will be published in the Journal. The design selection will be done by the editors-in-chief, editorial board, and Brill representatives.

The awards for contributing your design are: a) free T&TP subscription (print and online) for 1 year, starting with the first issue that has the new design, b) a monetary award of 200 euros, and c) journal publication of the design and a few words on its meaning and inspiration.

The design copyright will remain with the designer, who will be credited for it on the inside cover of the Journal, but Brill will be the proprietor of the whole cover in which the design is incorporated.

Please submit your entries to Argiro Vatakis by email: timingtimeperception@gmail.com or argiro.vatakis@gmail.com.

Some more design details: The front cover of T&TP is 15.5 x 23.5 cm. The designer of the new cover needs to supply an image at high resolution (300-600 dpi at the size mentioned above), as original .TIF, .JPEG or .EPS file, and in full colour (i.e., CMYK and not RGB format). The new cover design should either: a) include the text “TIMING & TIME PERCEPTION” in the same font as it is now (not necessarily the same colour) or b) take into account that this will added by Brill, together with other text items (e.g., ‘Brill’, volume, issue, year).