PLoS ONE (Jan 2012)

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders have "the working raw material" for time perception.

  • Sandrine Gil,
  • Patrick Chambres,
  • Charlotte Hyvert,
  • Muriel Fanget,
  • Sylvie Droit-Volet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049116
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 11
p. e49116

Abstract

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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.