title: Brief report: episodic foresight in autism spectrum disorder.
abstract: Episodic foresight (EpF) or, the ability to imagine the future and use such imagination to guide our actions, is an important aspect of cognition that has not yet been explored in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is despite its proposed links with theory of mind (ToM) and executive function (EF), two areas found to be impaired in ASD. Twenty-five children with ASD (M = 5 years, 10 months; 22 male) and 25 mental-age-matched typically developing children (M = 4 years, 10 months; 22 male) completed a series of EpF, ToM, and EF tasks. Significant group differences were detected on several EpF tasks suggesting that children with ASD show impairments in thinking about their future selves.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ljack033@uottawa.ca.
authors.forename: Laura K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Hanson
authors.forename: Cristina M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Atance
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D056345:Theory of Mind; D013850:Thinking
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