title: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders have "the working raw material" for time perception.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, UMR CNRS 7295, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France. sandrine.gil@univ-poitiers.fr
authors.forename: Sandrine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gil
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chambres
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hyvert
authors.forename: Muriel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fanget
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Droit-Volet
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*