Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Have “The Working Raw Material” for Time Perception

Sandrine Gil (1) , Patrick Chambres (2) , Charlotte Hyvert , Muriel Dubost Fanget (3) , Sylvie Droit-Volet (3)

1 CeRCA [Poitiers] - Centre de recherches sur la cognition et l'apprentissage [UMR 7295]
2 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
3 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de psychologie sociale et de psychologie cognitive

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.

Domaines: Psychologie

Sandrine Gil, Patrick Chambres, Charlotte Hyvert, Muriel Dubost Fanget, Sylvie Droit-Volet. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Have “The Working Raw Material” for Time Perception. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7 (11), pp.e49116. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0049116⟩. ⟨hal-02099677⟩