Besides cognitive disorders,such as disorders of learning, language, etc, the autistic patients generally have temporal cognitive disorders as well, including disorders of sense of time, disorders of memory of time, disorders of temporal behaviour, and disorders of self-consistency. Researchers discussed the possible causes of the temporal cognitive disorders of autistic patients from various ways such as of physiology, heredity, and environment;whereas, there are no generally accepted conclusions till now. Further researches are still needed.

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