Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
The developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed based on “motor performance that is substantially below expected levels, given the person's chronologic age and previous opportunities for skill acquisition” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). 21 adults with DCD and 21 neurotypical adults were recruited to examine the effects of motor abilities and empathy on the subjective time production. Empathic abilities were measured by Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1983) and motor abilities were measure by the manual dexterity task (Henderson et al., 2007). The results showed that the poor motor skills predict that worse accuracies of the time production, and lower empathic abilities (emotional empathy scores) predict worse accuracies of the time production. Additionally, the low accuracies of time production were based on comorbid autism spectrum characteristics rather than DCD characteristics itself, based on the analysis of covariance on ‘Autism spectrum Quotient’ scores (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001) as a covariate.
