Abstract
Interval Timing Deficits and Abnormal Cognitive Development
Highlights
It is difficult to assess whether secondary symptoms in general and interval timing abnormalities in particular play a causal role in developmental disorders
A direct causal relationship would characterize a case in which impairment of an interval timing system could directly disrupt cognitive functions relying on accurate timing information, resulting in the known primary symptoms
Such a direct causal relationship might be found in adult neuropsychology, it is not applicable to the study of developmental disorders, which are characterized by atypical neurogenetic pathways of cognitive development
Summary
It is difficult to assess whether secondary symptoms in general and interval timing abnormalities in particular play a causal role in developmental disorders. Both ASD and ADHD are associated with non-diagnostic secondary symptoms in perception and cognition. A secondary symptom observed in both ASD and ADHD is abnormal interval timing, i.e., processing of stimulus duration (for a review see Falter and Noreika, accepted).
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