Time perception may often be difficult to define in terms of processes
and specific brain areas but it is ever-present in all aspects of our
daily life. The study of timing has been central in Cognitive Sciences
but recently research has been more vigorous extending from static
and/or unimodal stimulations to moving and/or multimodal presentations.
This symposium will focus on recent behavioral and neuroimaging work
conducted with abstract moving and actual dance stimuli (enacted and
observed) in relation to timing. The use of biological real or implied
movement in timing research has made its appearance the last few years
providing a new platform for the investigation of embodiment and timing.
Research to-date has shown a distorted or enhanced time percept in the
presence of a moving (actual, implied or apparent motion) as compared to
a static stimulus, a fast as compared to a slow moving dancer (or crowd,
objects etc.), an expert in terms of spatiotemporal training (e. g.,
dancer) as compared to a naive participant, to name just a few. The
differential temporal percept observed has been attributed to different
clock processes for moving vs. non-moving stimuli to the recruitment of
additional processes due to embodiment (e. g., memory). However, more
research is required in order to obtain a better understanding of the
above-mentioned issues. Through this symposium we aim to bring more
focus on this area of research and promote discussion on current
findings and theories. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd