Dear all,
We are pleased to share the September 2017 Newsletter of the Timing Research Forum. We have a number of exciting and important updates and announcements about the upcoming TRF Conference in Strasbourg, which is just a month away!
CONTENTS
1. TRF Conference
– Registration
– Conference Program
– Business Meeting
– Accommodation
– TRF1 Speakers Q&A
– Poster instructions
– Open content (optional)
– Call for Social Media Outreach
– Call for Photographers
2. TRF Membership
3. TRF Blogs
4. TRF Mailing List
5. Blog your Paper
6. Blog your Conference
7. Contribute to TRF
8. Feedback for TRF
1. TRF CONFERENCE
Dates: October 23-25, 2017
Contact: Anne Giersch – trf.strasbourg@orange.fr
REGISTRATION
If you are planning to attend the TRF Conference, and haven’t registered yet, we would encourage you to do so at the earliest!
See the following link to complete your registration – https://trf-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/9
In case you no longer plan to attend the conference, can you let us know ASAP (email Anne) so we can make arrangements accordingly.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
We’ve updated the details and schedule for all symposia, oral sessions as well as the poster blitz session on the website. We encourage all attendees to use this to plan their conference itineraries in advance – https://trf-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org.
BUSINESS MEETING
We will organize a TRF Business Meeting from 9-10AM on Oct. 25 that is open to all TRF members. We have several announcements to make during the meeting, including the exciting location of the 2nd TRF Conference in 2018!
ACCOMMODATION
We would like to remind everyone to book their accommodation for Strasbourg if you haven’t already, as hotels are being booked out quickly for the conference dates. If you would like to share rooms/airbnb with other attendees, please let us know at trf@timingforum.orgso we can pair you according to your preferences.
TRF1 SPEAKERS Q&A
TRF is pleased to launch a new initiative – Speakers Q&A, where select Speakers share their thoughts on the current state-of-the-art in timing research and their presentations during the TRF Conference.
The first Speaker Q&A column features Dean Buonomano, who is organizing a symposium, ‘Timing, Neural Dynamics, and Temporal Scaling’ – https://timingforum.org/dean-buonomano-trf1-speaker-qa/
The second Speaker Q&A column features Warren Meck, one of the Keynote Speakers –
We’ve many more columns planned in the weeks leading up to the TRF conference, and we hope that enjoy reading these Q&A columns.
POSTER INSTRUCTIONS
Participants who have been selected to present their work on a poster can find the relevant instructions here –
OPEN CONTENT
TRF supports open science and would like to encourage all participants to share their work (slides/posters etc.) with all conference attendees. It is completely optional and we hope that you would join us in openly celebrating the science that is presented at the TRF Conference.
Please share your final slides/posters in advance of the conference by emailing us at trf@timingforum.org / timingresearchforum@gmail.com.
CALL FOR SOCIAL MEDIA OUTREACH
TRF has a very strong presence on a variety of social networks including ResearchGate, Twitter and Facebook.
We encourage all conference attendees to support our social media outreach by tweeting before/during the conference by tagging @timingforum and using the hashtag #TRF1. We hope this will inform the wider scientific community who will not be at the TRF conference about the science and the conference.
CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
We would like to invite volunteers who are amateur/expert photographers and are happy to wield their DSLRs/smart phone cameras to capture a variety of moments during the conference. Please email us at trf@timingforum.org to register your interest. All photos will be made available in a shared folder for all conference attendees to view and download.
2. TRF MEMBERSHIP
To become a member of TRF and join a community of ~ 600 timing researchers, please fill in the form here – https://timingforum.org/membership/
ResearchGate: 313 followers (+15.5%)
Twitter: 321 followers (+25.9%)
Facebook: 377 followers (+25.7%)
3. TRF BLOGS
We have a number of new blog articles reviewing recent papers on timing by a number of promising early career researchers.
Please read, share, comment and discuss!
Bowen Fung, University of Melbourne:
1) Dopamine encodes retrospective temporal information
2) The P3 and the subjective experience of time
3) Time perception in Schizophrenia
Bronson Harry, MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney:
1) Perceptual reorganisation in deaf participants can high level auditory cortex become selective for visual timing
Mukesh Makwana, Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad:
1) Intended outcome appears longer in time
2) Olfactory visual sensory integration twists time perception
3) What language you speak shapes your subjective time
Molly Henry, University of Western Ontario:
1) Review of a number of rhythm and timing conference in the summer of 2017
2) Implicit variations of temporal predictability shaping the neural oscillatory and behavioral response
3) Sequence learning modulates neural responses and oscillatory coupling in human and monkey auditory cortex
If you would also like to contribute as a TRF blogger, please get in touch: trf@timingforum.org.
4. TRF MAILING LIST
Everyone is invited to share any items related to timing related positions, grants, news, or anything that concerns timing research with the TRF community via our mailing list.
Make sure to use plain text when sending these messages (i.e. no attachments or fancy formatting is allowed). Please keep in mind that the mailing list is monitored, and only the the items approved by the mailing list moderators will be circulated to our community. Looking forward to your emails!
Please email your items directly to trf-list@timingforum.org.
5. BLOG YOUR PAPER
We 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.
6. BLOG YOUR CONFERENCE
We invite TRF members to blog about their experience of a timing conference/meeting/workshop that you 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.
Please submit your articles (no longer than 1000 words) to trf@timingforum.org within two months from the date of the conference you intend to highlight.
7. CONTRIBUTE TO TRF
TRF aims to host pertinent timing related resources, so that the TRF website acts as the definitive platform for everything related to timing research. The current resources listed on the TRF website include: (1) all members’ publications, (2) timing related special issues, (3) books on timing, (4) list of meetings focused on timing, (5) list of timing related societies/groups, (6) as well as code and mentoring resources.
TRF ecnourages open science and supports sharing of relevant information and knowledge between its members, with the aim to advance the field of timing research. We therefore invite you all to contribute to these resources. Please email us (trf@timingforum.org) your suggestions for new resources for the timing community.
8. FEEDBACK FOR TRF
As an open academic society, we hope that you participate freely and support the TRF community in achieving its mission. As we like to repeatedly emphasize, TRF’s aim is to serve all timing researchers through open exchange of ideas, information and resources to advance the timing research community. We are open to receiving your suggestions or ideas that will help TRF grow and continue to deliver on its mission. We look forward to your feedback!
With best wishes,
Sundeep Teki
University of Oxford
&
Argiro Vatakis
Cognitive Systems Research Institute
