Call for papers
Acta Psychologica Special Issue on Temporal Processing Within and Across Senses
Hosted by Argiro Vatakis & Rolf Ulrich
Inspired by the pioneering work of Carl Vierordt on time perception and the various methodological approaches he introduced in studying time perception (in his book Der Zeitsinn nach Versuchen-The time sense according to experiments or The experimental study of the time sense; Lejeune & Wearden, 2009), this special issue will discuss current research findings on temporal processing (not limited to duration judgments) within and between the senses. The issue will cover current models and new experimental data on interval timing, synchrony perception, and categorical timing. Additionally, issues brought forward in Vierordt’s work will also be covered, such as anticipatory effects on temporal judgments, the use of simple versus complex stimuli in experiments, attention, and time, cross-modal and individual differences in the perception and processing of time. This special issue will, thus, serve as a forum for the presentation of new research findings on temporal processing within and across senses.
Submission procedure:
1. Submit tentative title and abstract to Argiro Vatakis at argiro.vatakis@gmail.com by October 21st, 2012.
2. Full paper submission by December 12th, 2012
Instructions for submission: The submission website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/
3. Standard peer review/revision process will be followed.
4. Final decisions are expected by July 20th, 2013.
Guidelines CALL FOR PAPERS Special Topic Interval Timing and Time-Based Decision Making Hosted By: Valerie Doyere, CNRS, France Agnes Gruart, University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain Warren H. Meck, Duke University, USA Deadline for submission: 01 Jun 2011 Timing and time perception are crucial for everyday activities, from the sleep–wake cycle to playing and appreciating music, verbal communication, engagement in sports, and value determination. Making decisions about quality and rate of return is heavily influenced for example, by the durations of the various options, the duration of the expected delays for receiving the options, and the time constraints for making a choice. Recent advances suggest that the brain represents time in a distributed manner and tells time as a result of time-dependent changes in network states and/or by the coincidence detection of the phase of different neural populations. Moreover, intrinsic oscillatory properties of pre-motor neural circuits could determine timed motor responses. This special topic will discuss how time in the real world is reconstructed, distorted and modified in brain networks by emotion, learning and neuropathology. The sum reviews the relationship between time and decision-making with respect to the underlying psychological and physiological mechanisms responsible for anticipation and evaluation processes. The procedure is as follows: Guidelines 
1) submit an abstract to one of the guest editors (Warren Meck:
meck@psych.duke.edu, Agnès Gruat i Masso: agrumas@upo.es, or Valerie Doyere: valerie.doyere@u-psud.fr), and mention which category your paper fall in (see guidelines below)
2) if accepted, then, submit the full paper
3) review/revision process as usual