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. 2012;7(11):e49116.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049116. Epub 2012 Nov 21.

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

Sandrine Gil  1 , Patrick Chambres, Charlotte Hyvert, Muriel Fanget, Sylvie Droit-Volet
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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders have "the working raw material" for time perception

Sandrine Gil et al. PLoS One. 2012.

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.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Mean proportion of “long” responses plotted against stimulus durations, for both ASD and TD participants, and for duration range 1 (upper panel), and duration range 2 (lower panel).
Figure 2
Figure 2. Superimposition of the psychophysical functions for duration range 1 (R1) and duration range 2 (R2) in ASD participants.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Mean proportion of “long” responses plotted against stimulus durations, for both ASD and TD participants, and for duration range 3 (upper panel), and duration range 4 (lower panel).
Figure 4
Figure 4. Superimposition of the psychophysical functions for duration range 3 (R3) and duration range 4 (R4) in ASD participants.
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