Boucher, Jill, Pons, Francisco, Lind, Sophie and Williams, David. (2007) Temporal cognition in children with autistic spectrum disorders: tests of diachronic thinking. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Vol.37 (No.8). pp. 1413-1429. ISSN 0162-3257

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Psychology
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0162-3257
Date:	September 2007
Volume:	Vol.37
Number:	No.8
Number of Pages:	17
Page Range:	pp. 1413-1429
Identification Number:	10.1007/s10803-006-0285-9
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/31456

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