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Is there a generalized timing impairment in autism spectrum disorders across time scales and paradigms?

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Isaksson, Sofia, Salomäki, Susanna, Tuominen, Jarno, Arstila, Valtteri, Falter-Wagner, Christine M., Noreika, Valdas·2018·Journal of Psychiatric Research
DOI 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2018.01.017
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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.

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  • When ASD and TD individuals were compared, significant differences were found in the ASD group regarding several acoustic parameters, such as deficits in the intensity or loudness of stimuli, higher auditory duration discrimination threshold of stimuli, and enhanced memory for vocal melodies.

    “When ASD and TD individuals were compared, significant differences were found in the ASD group regarding several acoustic parameters, such as deficits in the intensity or loudness of stimuli, higher auditory duration discrimination threshold of stimuli, and enhanced memory for vocal melodies (Kargas and Lo 2015; Isaksson et al. 2018; Weiss et al. 2021).”

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  • Accumulating evidence indicates that timing functions are impaired in ADHD, dyslexia, and autism.

    “accumulating evidence indicates that timing functions are impaired in a variety of developmental disorders including ADHD [32,33], dyslexia [34], and autism [35,36].”

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Authors
Isaksson, S., Salomäki, S., Tuominen, J., Arstila, V., Falter-Wagner, C. M., & Noreika, V.
Affiliations
University of Turku (FI)
Corresponding author
Noreika, Valdas
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Psychiatric Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-04
Volume
99
Pages
111-121
ISSN
0022-3956 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jpsychires.2018.01.017
OpenAlex
W2789866634
Cited by
56
References
78
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7
FWCI
3.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research (publishedVersion)
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  • Kölner Universitäts PublikationsServer (Universität zu Köln) (publishedVersion)
  • UTUPub (University of Turku) (submittedVersion)
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • UTUPub (University of Turku) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Apollo
Funders
  • Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
  • Turku University Foundation
  • Margaretha Foundation
  • University of Munich
  • Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, temporal processing, motor timing, perceptual timing, simultaneity judgment, time perspective, children
MeSH terms
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Adolescent, Auditory Perception, Child, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Humans, Male, Psychomotor Performance, Sensory Thresholds, Severity of Illness Index, Time Perception, Asperger Syndrome

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