Abstract：
Our ability to perceive event duration and order is critical in every aspect of our lives, from everyday tasks like coordinating our limbs to walk safely, to uniquely human activities like planning our children\'s future. Many theoretical accounts of timing have been proposed to explain the mechanisms underlying our ability to estimate time and unify events in time. Continuous progress is being met in further refining and extending current theories, with the aim not only to advance our understanding of timing and time perception, but also to make timing more accessible and applicable to daily life. For this to be possible, cross-disciplinary thinking is required, which is something one cannot easily attain in a scientific conference, rather it requires a community. Having a community with an interest and/or expertise in timing can allow for cross-fertilization of ideas. This chapter introduced the story of the Timing Research Forum or else TRF.
摘要：
我们感知事件持续时间和秩序的能力在我们生活的各个方面都至关重要，从协调我们的四肢安全行走等日常任务中，独特的人类活动，比如规划我们孩子的未来。已经提出了许多关于时间的理论解释，以解释我们估计时间和及时统一事件的能力的潜在机制。在进一步完善和扩展现有理论方面正在取得持续进展，目的不仅是提高我们对时间和时间感知的理解，同时也使时间更容易获得和适用于日常生活。为了使这成为可能，需要跨学科的思考，这是人们在科学会议上不容易达到的，它需要一个社区。拥有一个对时间有兴趣和/或专业知识的社区可以允许思想的交叉受精。本章介绍了时序研究论坛或其他TRF的故事。
