title: Brief Report: Self-Based and Mechanical-Based Future Thinking in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
abstract: This brief report is a partial replication of the study by Jackson and Atance (J Dev Disabil 14:40-45, 2008) assessing nonverbal Self-based and Mechanical-based future thinking (FT) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In a first step, these tasks were administered to 30 children with ASD. The two Self-based tasks were then modified as a verbal component could not be completely ruled out. Consequently, 77 children with ASD and 77 children with typical development received the modified Self-based FT tasks and the Mechanical-based FT tasks. We partially replicated the previous findings. Participants with ASD had impaired FT in both kinds of tasks and both groups performed better on tasks assessing Mechanical-based FT than Self-based FT. These results suggest that impairments of FT in ASD are not limited to Self-Projection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education, and Society, University of Udine, Via Margreth, 3, 33100, Udine, Italy. andrea.marini@uniud.it.|Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, San Vito al Tagliamento, Pordenone, Italy. andrea.marini@uniud.it.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marini
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense, 234, 00146, Rome, Italy. francesco.ferretti@uniroma3.it.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ferretti
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense, 234, 00146, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chiera
authors.affiliation: Scientific Institute, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico "Bambino Gesù", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Magni
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense, 234, 00146, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Adornetti
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense, 234, 00146, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nicchiarelli
authors.affiliation: Scientific Institute, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico "Bambino Gesù", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vicari
authors.affiliation: Scientific Institute, IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico "Bambino Gesù", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Valeri
mesh_terms: D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology
keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Mechanical-based future thinking; Scene construction; Self-based future thinking