Martin Wiener

Associate Professor

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience, Time Perception, Space Perception, Datasharing

How does the brain perceive time and space? Philosophers may debate the nature of each, but my lab aims to empirically study how the brain constructs these dimensions. To do this, my lab uses a variety of different tools in the armamentarium of Cognitive Neuroscience: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Electroencephalography (EEG), and Psychophysics. Additionally, my lab focuses on combining different techniques, such as simultaneous TMS-EEG or fMRI-EEG, to enhance their power and the repertoire of questions that can be asked.

Even more exciting: we are not just interested in time and space alone, but what they are used for. For time, a major use of interest is the perception of rhythm and music. For space, we are interested in how this dimension is used for navigation and processing value.

Lab website: https://starlabgmu.wixsite.com/star

Selected Publications

Ma, A. C., Cameron, A. D., & Wiener, M. (2024). Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa). Nature Human Behaviour, 1-13.

De Kock, R., Zhou, W., Joiner, W. M., & Wiener, M. (2021). Slowing the body slows down time perception. Elife, 10, e63607.

Bader, F., & Wiener, M. (2024). Neuroimaging Signatures of Metacognitive Improvement in Sensorimotor Timing. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(9).

De Kock, R., Gladhill, K. A., Ali, M. N., Joiner, W. M., & Wiener, M. (2021). How movements shape the perception of time. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(11), 950-963.

Wiener, M., Turkeltaub, P., & Coslett, H. B. (2010). The image of time: a voxel-wise meta-analysis. Neuroimage, 49(2), 1728-1740.

.Wiener, M., Kliot, D., Turkeltaub, P. E., Hamilton, R. H., Wolk, D. A., & Coslett, H. B. (2012). Parietal influence on temporal encoding indexed by simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(35), 12258-12267.

Expanded Publication List

Wiener, M., Michaelis, K., & Thompson J. (2016) Distance Reproduction is Influenced by Prior Stimulus History via the hippocampus and retrosplenial cortex.Human Brain Mapping, 37(9), 3172–3187.

Wiener, M., & Thompson, J. The Effect of Background Context on the Size-Time Illusion (2016). Timing and Time Perception, 4(2), 167-186.

Wiener, M., & Kanai, R. (2016). Frequency Tuning for Temporal Perception and Prediction. Current Opinion in Behavioral Science, 8, 1-6.

Wiener, M., & Thompson, J. (2015). Repetition Enhancement and Memory Effects for Duration. NeuroImage, 113, 268-278.

Wiener, M. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation studies of Human Time Perception: A Primer (2015). Timing and Time Perception, 2(3), 233-260.

Wiener, M., Thompson, J., & Coslett, H.B. (2014) Continuous Carryover of Temporal Context dissociates Response Bias from Perceptual Influence for Duration. PLoS One, 9(6), e100803.

Michaelis, K., Wiener, M., & Thompson, J. (2014) Passive listening to preferred motor tempo modulates corticospinal excitability. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 252.

Wiener, M., Lee, Y-S., Lohoff, F., & Coslett, H.B. (2014). Individual differences in the morphometry and activation of time perception networks are influenced by genotype. NeuroImage, 89, 10-22.

Hamilton, R., Wiener, M., & Coslett, H.B. (2013). Gone in a flash: manipulation of audiovisual temporal integration using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Frontiers in Perception Science.

Berryhill, M., Wiener, M., Jansen, J.A., Lohoff, F.W., & Coslett, H.B. (2013) COMT and ANKK1-Taq-Ia genetic polymorphisms influence visual working memory. PLoS ONE, e55862.

Balci, F., Wiener, M., Cavdaroglu B. & Coslett, H.B. (2013) Epistasis effects of dopamine genes on interval timing and reward magnitude in humans. Neuropsychologia, 51(2), 293-308.

Wiener, M., Kliot, D., Turkeltaub, P.E., Hamilton, R.H., Wolk, D., & Coslett, H.B. (2012). Parietal influence on temporal encoding indexed by simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(35), 12258-12267

Turkeltaub, P.E., Eickhoff, S.B., Laird, A.R., Fox, M., Wiener, M., Fox, P. (2012). Minimizing within-experiment and within-group effects in activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses. Human Brain Mapping, 33 (1), 1-13.

Gooch, C.M., Wiener, M., Hamilton, C.A., & Coslett, H.B. (2011) Temporal discrimination of sub- and supra-second time intervals: a voxel-based lesion mapping analysis. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5: 59. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00059.

Wiener, M., Lohoff, F.W., & Coslett, H.B. (2011). Double dissociation of dopamine genes and timing in humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2811-2821.

Wiener, M, Matell, M.S., & Coslett, H.B. (2011). Multiple mechanisms for temporal processing. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 5:31. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00031

Wiener, M., Turkeltaub, P.E., & Coslett, H.B. (2010) Implicit timing tasks activate the left inferior parietal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 48(13), 3967-3971

Coslett, H.B., Wiener, M., & Chaterjee, A (2010). Multiple procedures for timing: evidence from basal ganglia lesions in humans. PLoS One 5(4), e10324.

Gooch, C.M., Wiener, M., & Coslett, H.B. (2010). Interval timing disruptions in subjects with cerebellar lesions. Neuropsychologia, 48(4), 1022-1031.

Wiener, M., Turkeltaub, P., & Coslett, H.B. (2010). The image of time: a voxel-wise meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 49(2), 1728-1740.

Wiener, M., Hamilton, R., Turkeltaub, P., Matell, M.S., & Coslett, H.B. (2010). Fast forward: supramarginal gyrus stimulation alters time measurement. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(1), 23-31.

Coslett, H.B., Shenton J., Dyer T., & Wiener, M. (2009). Cognitive timing: neuropsychology and anatomic basis. Brain Research, 1254, 38-48.

Wiener M., Magaro, C.M., & Matell, M.S. (2008). Accurate timing but increased impulsivity following excitotoxic lesions of the subthalamic nucleus. Neuroscience Letters, 440(2), 176-180.

Wiener M., & Coslett, H.B. (2008). Disruption of temporal processing in a subject with frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia, 46(7), 1927-1939.

Gooch, C.M., Wiener, M., Portugal, G.S., & Matell, M.S. (2007). Evidence for separate neural mechanisms for the timing of discrete and sustained responses. Brain Research, 1156, 139-151.

Courses Taught

Psyc 300-003, Statistics in Psychology

Psyc 892-006, Human Brain Stimulation Methods

Psyc 592-001, Music and the Brain

Psyc 531-001, Mammalian Neurobiology

Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2011

Dissertations Supervised

Candice T. Stanfield-Wiswell , Context-Dependent Mechanisms in Numerosity-Time Interactions (2023)

Keri Anne Gladhill, The Effects of Movement Parameters on Time Perception (2023)