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Isaksson, Sofia, Salomaki, Susanna, Tuominen, Jarno ORCID: 0000-0002-3892-3199, Arstila, Valtteri ORCID: 0000-0001-6838-9946, Falter-Wagner, Christine M. and Noreika, Valdas (2018). Is there a generalized timing impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorders across time scales and paradigms? J. Psychiatr. Res., 99. S. 111 - 122. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1879-1379

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Abstract

Individuals with ASD have abnormal motor and perceptual functions that do not currently form diagnostic criteria of ASD, but nevertheless may affect everyday behaviour. Temporal processing seems to be one of such non-diagnostic yet impaired domains, although the lack of systematic studies testing different aspects of timing in the same sample of participants prevents a conclusive assessment of whether there is a generalized temporal deficit in ASD associated with diagnostic symptoms. 17 children diagnosed with ASD and 18 typically developing age- and IQ-matched controls carried out a set of motor and perceptual timing tasks: free tapping, simultaneity judgment, auditory duration discrimination, and verbal duration estimation. Parents of participants filled in a questionnaire assessing the sense and management of time. Children with ASD showed faster and more variable free tapping than controls. Auditory duration discrimination thresholds were higher in the ASD group than controls in a sub-second version of the task, while there were no group differences in a supra-second discrimination of intervals. Children with ASD showed more variable thresholds of simultaneity judgment, and they received lower parental scores for their sense and management of time. No group differences were observed in the verbal duration estimation task in the minute-range. Different timing functions were correlated in the ASD group but not among controls, whilst several timing measures correlated with ASD symptoms. We conclude that children with ASD show a broad range of abnormalities in temporal processing tasks including motor timing, perceptual timing, and temporal perspective.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Isaksson, Sofia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Salomaki, Susanna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tuominen, Jarno UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3892-3199 UNSPECIFIED Arstila, Valtteri UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6838-9946 UNSPECIFIED Falter-Wagner, Christine M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Noreika, Valdas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-191182
DOI:	10.1016/j.jpsychires.2018.01.017
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Psychiatr. Res.
Volume:	99
Page Range:	S. 111 - 122
Date:	2018
Publisher:	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1879-1379
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language NEURAL BASIS; CHILDREN; PERCEPTION; ADULTS; DEFICITS; ADHD; PERFORMANCE; DELAY; DISCRIMINATION; INDIVIDUALS Multiple languages Psychiatry Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19118