Temporal Memory and Expectations

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to contribute an empirical or review paper to our Special Issue entitled “Temporal memory and expectations”. In this Special Issue, we—Dr. Sanne ten Oever and Dr. Vincent van de Ven—aim to collect state-of-the-art research on how the human brain uses learned and memorized temporal information of our experiences to create expectations of what will happen in the future. The last decade has seen a sharp increase in scientific interest into how we process and memorize temporal information. An emerging view is that temporal cognition may be strongly intertwined with perception and memory, underscoring the context dependence in how we process temporal structure. This notion builds on propositions and postulations from classic scholars such as Aristotle, St. Augustine, and William James. Contemporary research into psychology, functional neuroimaging, electrophysiology, brain stimulation, and computational modeling now provides pioneering insights into how the brain learns and memorizes temporal structure from our experiences and uses it to generate expectations of what will happen in the future.

With your help and contributions, we aim to create an exciting, insightful, and thought-provoking collection of empirical knowledge that will not only highlight the current state of affairs in this burgeoning and multidisciplinary field of research but also provide a foundation upon which new scientific “expectations” and progress can be made.

We are looking forward to receiving your response.

With kind regards,

Dr. Vincent van de Ven
Dr. Sanne Ten Oever
Guest Editors

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• Associative temporal memory
• Temporal expectations
• Predictive processing
• Functional neuroimaging
• Noninvasive brain stimulation
• EEG