Open AccessChildren with Autism Spectrum Disorders Have “The Working Raw Material” for Time Perception
Author(s) -
Sandrine Gil,
Patrick Chambres,
Charlotte Hyvert,
Muriel Fanget,
Sylvie DroitVolet
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0049116
Subject(s) - autism , perception , audiology , typically developing , autism spectrum disorder , time perception , population , psychology , medicine , pediatrics , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , neuroscience , environmental health
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have a deficit in time perception. Twelve ASD children of normal intelligence and twelve typically developing children (TD) - matched on sex, chronological age, and mental age – performed four temporal bisection tasks that were adapted to the population. Two short (0.5 to 1 s and 1.25 to 2.5 s) and two long duration ranges (3.12 to 6.25 s and 7.81 to 16.62 s) were thus examined. The findings suggested that the perception of time in bisection is not impaired in ASD.
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