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Following studies of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience in Munich, Germany and Boston, USA, I obtained my PhD in 2014 from Humboldt University Berlin. My Postdoctoral research took me to Leipzig and Lübeck, before I moved to Paris, France, where I now work as a permanent researcher at Neurospin. Since my Master’s I was fascinated by the question of how the brain times. While in my PhD, I focused on explicit timing and the visual modality, today, my research is centered around implicit timing, and how it benefits audition. I study how temporal predictions are formed implicitly from the temporal statistics of sensory inputs using Bayesian models, and how these predictions interact with the auditory sensory analysis to benefit hearing. Furthermore, I investigate the neural dynamics that implement endogenous temporal predictions, with a specific interest in (slow) neural oscillations. To address these questions, I utilize a comprehensive methodology that integrates electrophysiology (EEG/MEG) and functional neuroimaging (fMRI) with classical experimental psychology, psychophysics, and computational modeling.

Ayelet Landau is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and leads the Brain Attention and Time Lab. Her research focuses on temporal cognition, attentional sampling, and neural oscillations, with a particular interest in how rhythmic brain dynamics shape perception, action, and interpersonal coordination. She combines behavioral, EEG, and computational approaches to investigate how the brain represents time and uses temporal structure to guide attention and behavior.   

Yuko Yotsumoto is a Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo. She is also a Director of the UTokyo Institute for Diversity and Adaptation of Human Mind. She received her PhD from Brandeis University in 2005, where she studied mathematical modeling of human visual memory. She then completed postdoctoral training at Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital, conducting research on perceptual learning and neural consolidation using fMRI. Since establishing her lab at the University of Tokyo, her research has focused on temporal perception, with an emphasis on oscillatory neural activity measured by EEG and Bayesian computational modeling. 

Thomas Hinault is a researcher at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), in the “Neuropsychology and Imaging of Human Memory” research unit (Caen, Normandy). He completed his thesis on cognitive changes occurring during aging at Aix-Marseille University, for which he was awarded the thesis prize in 2017. He then completed two postdoctoral fellowships (McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States) to develop the study of brain connectivity and aging effects therein. His current research focuses on the evolution of time perception and memory with age, as well as the associated brain connectivity. He received the Théodule Ribot Prize for Scientific Psychology in 2020 and the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) early career award in 2025. 

Martin Riemer is a German psychologist and neuroscientist based at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin). He received his PhD at the University of Mannheim (2013). During his postdoctoral training at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Magdeburg and at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), he studied age-related changes in temporal processing. His current research centers around time perception, spatial cognition and body representations, as well as the effects of healthy and pathological aging on these cognitive domains.

He uses a wide range of methods, including virtual reality (VR), eye-tracking, psychophysical and -physiological techniques, electro-encephalography (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Since October 2021, he led a research group at the Department of Biological Psychology and Neuroergonomics, focusing on age-related changes in the interaction between space and time perception in virtual environments. 

Marc Wittmann studied Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and the University of Munich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. (1997) and his habilitation (2007) at the Institute of Medical Psychology, Medical School, University of Munich (LMU). Between 2004 and 2009 was Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. Since 2009 he is employed at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany. He is author of the books Felt Time (2016) and Altered States of Consciousness (2018), both published by MIT Press.