Timing, movement, and reward contributions to prefrontal and striatal ramping activity Across species, prefrontal and striatal neurons exhibit time-dependent ramping activity, defined as a consistent monotonic change in firing rate across temporal intervals. However, it is unclear if ra...

Timing, movement, and reward contributions to prefrontal and striatal ramping activity

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Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics - Nature Neuroscience This study shows that cerebellar circuits learn and encode prior probabilities of event timing. Cell-type-specific neural activity reflects environmental statistics and guides predictive motor behavio...

Our work on how neural circuits in the cerebellum encode prior probabilities led by Julius Koppen is out now in Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big thanks to Julius Koppen & the whole team! And dedicated to all of us who found inspiration in Bayesian theories of the brain!

Memory encoding for new information, not autobiographical memory load, is linked with age-related differences in subjective time passage over the past decade - Memory & Cognition The widely replicated finding that time passage over the past decade is perceived as faster by older adults was the focus of this study. We investigated potential factors associated with this effect, ...

Why does time speed up as we age? Now in Springer Nature's Memory & Cognition journal: A fascinating case of falsification of our strong and convincing hypothesis with lead author Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università da Roma and my team at @igpp.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

How the human brain builds our sense of time A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across different regions.

If you’re curious to learn more about how we build our sense of time, without too many technicalities, here’s a nice read on our recent work!

www.earth.com/news/how-the...

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics - Nature Neuroscience This study shows that cerebellar circuits learn and encode prior probabilities of event timing. Cell-type-specific neural activity reflects environmental statistics and guides predictive motor behavio...

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not to mention CRCNS is now based out of SBE…

Flexible, abstract rhythm perception in bumble bees Flexible, abstract rhythm perception underpins human music, dance, and speech, but thus far, it has only been demonstrated in a few birds and mammals. In this work, we show that bumble bees also form ...

“Flexible rhythm perception underpins human music, dance & speech. We show that bees form robust abstract rhythm representations. Results suggest an insect brain can encode & generalize arbitrary complex temporal patterns, pointing to deep evolutionary roots for domain‐general rhythm cognition.”😲
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Neuronal populations across the cortex underlie discrete, categorical, and subjective representations of visual durations Duration perception involves multiple brain regions, but how unimodal tuning across this network supports subjective timing remains unclear. This study shows that parietal, premotor, and caudal SMA en...

By modelling brain responses to brief visual stimuli, we define a functional hierarchy of time processing and perception: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

So very happy to see this work out in @plosbiology.org! Another great team effort with @gianfrancof.bsky.social and @dbueti.bsky.social

Tolkien also wrote the opposite: “Good fucks up because good people think evil people can change”

Counterpoint:

Amazing results. This may sound weird, but did spoken languages matter? Were bilinguals more likely to show the effect than monolinguals?

This looks awesome and I will now be having all subjects play WarioWare in the scanner

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom - Nature Ecology & Evolution Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal resolution of perception.

Fascinating results! Reminds me of this recent work by @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and others. Makes me wonder if there's a connection between the two... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Task learning increases information redundancy of neural responses in macaque visual cortex How does the brain optimize sensory information for decision-making in new tasks? One hypothesis suggests that learning reduces redundancy in neural representations to improve efficiency, whereas anot...

RIP redundancy reduction?

Beautiful work by Liu & colleagues showing that neural redundancy increases with learning, as predicted by a Bayesian model:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oh wow, congrats Brady!

Excited to share that our MEG project is now out in Current Biology! We show how visual content codes relate to motor oscillations in telling time.

Huge thanks to Quirin Gehmacher, Peter Kok, Matt Davis and Clare Press (bsky links below).🧵

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

SensingTime2026 The Shaping a World-class University program of University of Padova and TRF collaborated in the organization of the 2nd TRF training school that took place during the 6th and 10th of July 2026 in Pad...

Sensing Time
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Even more intriguing, there was work done back in the 80s to survey time across a huge variety of species, finding quite a variety (i.e. pigeons are very good at timing, but turtledoves - same family - are terrible at it). (nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...)

Fascinating! There's a rich history here of people wondering about timescales across species, going back to the work of van Baer in 1862 (ane.pl/index.php/an...). How do you think this connects?

You had me at Monster Manual

New virtual journal club coming up @timingresforum.bsky.social! Excited to have Ruth Ogden talking about how time matters in our everyday lives. 2/25, 10am EST. Sign-up link below:

mailchi.mp/f1952677a87c...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

Interested in how different aspects of object information, including visual, semantics, and memorability, are encoded and represented in the brain? Check out our latest study in iEEG & fMRI~

Cool findings! It may also be that how subjectively long people felt they were looking at the image predicts perceived beauty

Modeling how contextual and structural biases shape duration perception Human time perception is flexible and shaped by both structural constraints and contextual influences. Disentangling these sources of bias is essential for understanding the predictive mechanisms unde...

Preprint out, from my work with @mamassian.bsky.social and Anne! We show that time perception is shaped not only by context but also by structural constraints, by extending classical Bayesian models by explicitly quantifying a structural prior impacting duration discrimination.
shorturl.at/q8bE6

Whoa! This is awesome! Thanks for making and sharing

Grad school me spent way too many hrs fighting matlab to generate dot arrays and extract parameters from pre-existing stimuli. So I built the thing I wish existed: an open-source, browser-based toolbox for generating AND analyzing dot arrays. No MATLAB, no installation, no inherited spaghetti code

Just curious: which part of your experience taking stims adds to the incredulity? (I get and share the neuroscience part, but am genuinely curious about the former)

Prediction errors bidirectionally bias time perception - Nature Neuroscience Toren et al. show that outcomes that are better or worse than expected lengthen or shorten the perceived duration of stimuli, respectively, and that this interaction between teaching signals and time ...

The irony/paradox is that dopamine also dilates (lengthens) perceived duration. And so motivation/guidance can't be just about minimizing experienced duration - the lengthening can be a cue for reinforcement

www.nature.com/articles/s41...