When the next economic crisis occurs, will it be just another peak in a very, very slow oscillation? Or will it be triggered by specific circumstances and preceded by warning signs? Or perhaps we will expect a crisis to happen only because it's been long enough since the last one? And most importantly, will the particular scenario of our prediction...

The neural mechanisms of encoding timing are still controversial. According to one prominent hypothesis, time is encoded in local network dynamics - see a previous blog post dedicated to this issue. However, similar mechanisms ("population clocks") have been linked to multiple areas across the brain, including the striatum, prefrontal and parietal...

Attending to specific moments in time improves the quality of sensory information presented at these moments. Behavioural and neural benefits of temporal orienting have been shown in several contexts, including rhythmic regularities of the presented stimuli, cues informing about the relevance of specific time windows, and evolving probabilities of...

Predictable timing has been shown to modulate the neural processing of auditory stimuli at multiple stages and time scales, e.g. reducing the amplitude of the P50 and N1 potentials in the EEG. The modulatory effects of predictable timing include an enhancement of repetition suppression (see these examples) and omission responses to tones whose...

Several noninvasively measured neural signatures of predicting events in time have been proposed so far. These include the contingent negative variation - a slow build-up of the EEG potential before an expected stimulus; similar time-dependent modulation of alpha-band power (8-13Hz); and low-frequency entrainment, such as delta-band (1-3Hz)...

We know that the passage of time at multiple time scales can influence neural activity. But what brain mechanisms are responsible for the encoding of time itself? [Link] to the original post for Timing Research Forum