Timing and Time Perception

09/09/2025

🎉⏰ It's almost time…! ⏰🎉

The countdown to TRF4 is ON! 🧠🕒
Join an incredible community of scientists, scholars, and time-obsessed thinkers from around the globe as we dive deep into the mysteries of timing and time perception.
📅 Conference kicks off October 17th in Tokyo!
🚨 LAST CHANCE to register before time runs out!
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https://sites.google.com/view/trf4tokyo/registration-abstract-submissions

10/02/2025

Join us for our upcoming Virtual Journal Club!

Date: February 26th, 2025
Time: 10 am (EST)

Speaker: Dr. Marc Wittmann, Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany.

Title: Embodied Time: How the Brain and Body Process Time

Abstract:
The mystery of time consciousness may finally be unraveling. Recent evidence from two independent meta-analyses reveals that the brain processes subjective time through the insular cortex and the supplementary motor area (SMA). The insula, the brain’s primary sensory interoceptive cortex, receives and interprets signals from bodily organs and tissues. Growing evidence from functional neuroimaging and psychophysiological studies suggests that subjective time judgments are deeply connected to both bodily and emotional experiences. Perceiving time’s passage and judging duration depend on brain regions that mediate the interaction between the body and the external world (SMA), as well as the processing of internal bodily signals (insula).

BIO:
Marc Wittmann, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany. He studied psychology and philosophy at the Universities of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich. From 2000 to 2004 he was head of the Generation Research Program, Bad Tölz, University of Munich. Between 2004 to 2009 he was a research fellow in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the MIT Press books Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time published in 2016 and Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self published in 2018.

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24/10/2024

Special Issue on the “Time Experience in a Changing World”
Hosted by Ruth Ogden, Marc Wittmann, Joanna Witowska, & Vanda Černohorská

Our experience of time is intimately linked to the world around us. Individual and societal changes such as trauma, economic change (e.g., faster societies and busier lives) and global health threats (e.g., climate change, pandemics) can alter our perception, experience and memory of time. Changes in the experience of “lived time” and the representation of time also have the potential to influence decision making and actions in a range of scenarios. Given growing academic and public interest in this area, Timing & Time Perception is hosting a special issue on the “Time Experience in a Changing World.”

In this special issue, we seek to showcase research exploring how time experience is shaped by an ever-changing world, why our environment influences temporal experience, and what the consequences of these changes are for individuals and societies.

We actively encourage articles from a very broad range of disciplines, for example, psychology, sociology, philosophy, historical analysis, neuroscience, and far beyond. We also welcome articles using a wide range of methodologies, for example, ethnography, questionnaires, qualitative analysis, observations and alongside more traditional lab-based methods. In doing so, we hope to create a special issue which will stimulate new research questions and collaborations within the field.

Submission Procedure
1. Full paper submission by April 30, 2025.
Instructions for submission: The submission website is located at: https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/timebrill/default2.aspx
To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue it is important to select “Special Issue: Time in Changing Worlds” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. More details on format that must be followed in preparing your manuscripts, see here:
https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/TIME.pdf

2. Standard peer review/revision process will be followed.

3. Final decisions are expected by August 2025 (this depends on submission date, thus earlier decisions are also possible for early submission dates).

25/09/2024

The TRF4 website is finally live!
TRF4.com

05/07/2024

The abstracts from Timing Research Forum 3 (TRF3) ‒ the third international conference dedicated to multidisciplinary research on timing and time perception ‒ are published in Timing & Time Perception Volume 12, No. 3-4

03/04/2024

** Special Issue **
Timing & Time Perception has just published a Special Issue on ‘The Two Times Problem: Physical Time vs. Human Time’, with all contributions in ! http://brill.ws/TIME12-2_

03/04/2024

** Special Issue **
Timing & Time Perception has just published a Special Issue on ‘The Two Times Problem: Physical Time vs. Human Time’, with all contributions in !

"Volume 12 (2024): Issue 2 (Apr 2024): Special Issue: The Two Times Problem: Physical Time vs. Human Time, edited by Richard A. Block, Ronald P. Gruber and Carlos Montemayor" published on 02 Apr 2024 by Brill.

04/03/2024

26/01/2024

📢 The first 2024 issue of Timing & Time Perception is now available online!

The regular issue opens with an obituary for Michel Treisman (1929–2023). In “A Short Appreciation of his Contributions to the Study of Time Perception” ( ), John H. Wearden remembers “one of its most important historical figures” in the field of time perception. He was best known for his monumental 1963 monograph “Temporal discrimination and the indifference interval: Implications for a model of the "internal clock"” (https://lnkd.in/e5K6D63R) – https://lnkd.in/eSsESrmx

This article is followed by the review article “Vierordt’s Law for Space and Time: Hollingworth (1909) and “The Law of Central Tendency””, also by John H. Wearden – https://lnkd.in/etDpzmsR

The issue further contains five research articles:

Difference Between the Judgment of Short and Long Durations: Estimates of Durations and Judgment of the Passage of Time ‒ Sylvie Droit-Volet and Quentin Hallez – https://lnkd.in/eWhYJDSC

Differences in Time Perspective in Representatives of Various Generations ‒ Paweł Kot – https://lnkd.in/esgfgB2s

Relationship between Decision-Making, Time Perspective and Stress ‒ Sheetal Mehrotra, Babu Rangaiah and Srujana Kathi – https://lnkd.in/eaSM-6EJ

Psychometric Validation of the German Adaptation of the Temporal Metacognition Scale ‒ Joanna Witowska, Maciej Stolarski and Marc Wittmann – ttps://https://lnkd.in/ewikWWXn

Modeling the Effect of Psycho-Socio-Economic Consequences of COVID-19 on Life Satisfaction: The Role of Deviation from a Balanced Time Perspective ‒ Denisa Fedakova, Matúš Adamkovič, Alexander Loziak and Pavol Kačmár – https://lnkd.in/exmNZe9x

Editors-in-Chief: Argiro Vatakis, Hedderik van Rijn and Fuat Balcı

The full content of this Timing & Time Perception issue is available at https://lnkd.in/eUNQq3Ss

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11/12/2022

Speaker: Professor Hugo Merchant, Institute of Neurobiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico.Title: A premotor amodal clock for rhythmic tapping.Abs...