Temporal cognition in children with autistic spectrum disorders: Tests of diachronic perspective taking

Boucher, J.; Pons, F. *Lind; ,* Williams, D., S.

doi:10.1007/s10803-006-0285-9

Temporal cognition in children with autistic spectrum disorders: Tests of diachronic perspective taking

Boucher, J.; Pons, F. Lind; , Williams, D., S.

Authors

J. Boucher

F. *Lind Pons

S. ,* Williams, D.

Contributors

S E Lind cjmw18@durham.ac.uk
Other

Abstract

Impaired diachronic thinking—(the propensity and capacity to think about events spreading across time)—was demonstrated in a 2-Phase study in which children with autism were compared with age and ability matched controls. Identical tests of diachronic thinking were administered in both phases of the study, but to different participant groups, with the same results. The marked impairments shown are therefore robust. Various non-temporal explanations of the findings were eliminated by the results of control tasks in Phase 2. Diachronic thinking did not correlate with verbal or non-verbal ability, age, or mentalising ability, consistent with other evidence of the specificity of diachronic thinking ability. Possible causes of impaired diachronic thinking in autism are discussed.

Citation

Boucher, J., Pons, F. *., & ,* Williams, D., S. (2007). Temporal cognition in children with autistic spectrum disorders: Tests of diachronic perspective taking. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(8), 1413-1429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0285-9

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Sep 1, 2007
Deposit Date	Sep 6, 2010
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Print ISSN	0162-3257
Electronic ISSN	1573-3432
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	37
Issue	8
Pages	1413-1429
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0285-9
Keywords	Autism, Temporal cognition, Episodic memory, Neural binding, Metarepresentation.
Publisher URL	http://www.springerlink.com/content/a215470g4388l2w6/