Abnormal Timing and Time Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder? A Review of the Evidence

• Published in: Time Distortions in Mind pp. 37 - 56
• Main Author: Allman, Melissa J
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States BRILL 2015
• Subjects: Autistic disorder; Behavioral neuroscience; Behavioral sciences; Biological sciences; Biology; Childhood mental disorders; Children; Clinical psychology; Cognitive neuroscience; Cognitive psychology; Disorders; Health sciences; Human behavior; Human populations; Medical conditions; Mental illness; Metaphysics; Neuroscience; Perception; Perception theory; Persons; Pervasive child development disorders; Philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Population studies; Psychology; Sensory perception; Social behavior; Social interaction; Social sciences; Time perception; Visual perception
• ISBN: 9004230645; 9789004230644
• DOI: 10.1163/9789004230699_003

Autism spectrum disorders (asd) is a cluster term for impairment in areas such as communication, social interaction, and imagination, and restricted and repetitive behaviors. Affected individuals, who grow up with this disorder, appear to perceive the world in profoundly different ways, and this may ultimately underlie the manifestation of diagnostic behavioral phenotypic characteristics (as for other forms of psychological disorder; e.g., schizophrenia, adhd, other developmental disorders). The question as to whether some of these differences are attributable to pathophysiological differences in how the brain keeps time has recently become a focus of autism research. So too has the nature of