Timing & Time Perception Enters a New Dimension

Abstract

Timing is ever-present in our daily lives — from the ringing of the alarm clock to our ability to walk, dance, remember, and communicate with others. This intimate relationship has led scientists from different disciplines to investigate timing mechanisms and to explore how individuals perceive, process, and effectively use timing in their daily activities. With the launch of Timing & Time Perception (brill.com/time) the field of timing and time perception enters a new and exciting phase of development in which the multi-dimensions of this rapidly emerging field can be explored and contemplatedwith the support of a journal that provides a platform for researchers to announce their latest discoveries and theoretical formulations. In this sense, Timing & Time Perception aims to become the forum for all psychophysical, neuroimaging, pharmacological, computational, and theoretical advances on the topic of timing and timeperception in humans andnonhuman animals.We envision amultidisciplinary approach to the topics covered, including the synergy of neuroscience andphilosophy for understanding the concept of time, cognitive science and artificial intelligence for adapting basic research to artificial agents, as well as psychiatric, neurological, behavioral, cognitive, and computational sciences for neuro-rehabilitation and modeling of normal and disordered brains, to name just a few. Given the ubiquity of interval timing, this journal will host all basic studies, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary works on timing and time perception and serve as a forum for discussion and extension of current knowledge on the topic. The title of the new journal is reminiscent of the influential Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences volume edited by John Gibbon and Lorraine Allan (Gibbon & Allan, 1984). That volume had the important goal of helping to integrate the study of timing in humans and other animals. Our current endeavor has even broader ambitions to integrate it with neuroscience, computational analysis, and other topics. We think that Timing & Time Perception