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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Have ‘‘The Working Raw Material’’ for Time Perception 1 2 2 2 2 Sandrine Gil *, Patrick Chambres , Charlotte Hyvert , Muriel Fanget , Sylvie Droit-Volet 1 Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l’Apprentissage, UMR CNRS 7295, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France, 2 Laboratoire de psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Blaise Pascal University, UMR CNRS 6024, Clermont-Ferrand, France Abstract The aim of the present study was to investigate whether children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have a deficit in time perception. Twelve ASD children of normal intelligence and twelve typically developing children (TD) - matched on sex, chronological age, and mental age – performed four temporal bisection tasks that were adapted to the population. Two short (0.5 to 1 s and 1.25 to 2.5 s) and two long duration ranges (3.12 to 6.25 s and 7.81 to 16.62 s) were thus examined. The findings suggested that the perception of time in bisection is not impaired in ASD. Citation: Gil S, Chambres P, Hyvert C, Fanget M, Droit-Volet S (2012) Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Have ‘‘The Working Raw Material’’ for Time Perception. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49116. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049116 Editor: Warren H. Meck, Duke University, United States of America Received May 30, 2012; Accepted October 9, 2012; Published November 21, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Gil et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was supported by a grant from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR: Emotion(s), Cognition, Comportement (EM