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Atypical rapid audio‐visual temporal recalibration in autism spectrum disorders

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Noel, Jean‐Paul, De Niear, Matthew A., Stevenson, Ryan, Alais, David, Wallace, Mark T.·2017·Autism Research
DOI 10.1002/aur.1633PMC PMC10791168
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Changes in sensory and multisensory function are increasingly recognized as a common phenotypic characteristic of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Furthermore, much recent evidence suggests that sensory disturbances likely play an important role in contributing to social communication weaknesses—one of the core diagnostic features of ASD. An established sensory disturbance observed in ASD is reduced audiovisual temporal acuity. In the current study, we substantially extend these explorations of multisensory temporal function within the framework that an inability to rapidly recalibrate to changes in audiovisual temporal relations may play an important and under‐recognized role in ASD. In the paradigm, we present ASD and typically developing (TD) children and adolescents with asynchronous audiovisual stimuli of varying levels of complexity and ask them to perform a simultaneity judgment (SJ). In the critical analysis, we test audiovisual temporal processing on trial t as a condition of trial t − 1. The results demonstrate that individuals with ASD fail to rapidly recalibrate to audiovisual asynchronies in an equivalent manner to their TD counterparts for simple and non‐linguistic stimuli (i.e., flashes and beeps, hand‐held tools), but exhibit comparable rapid recalibration for speech stimuli. These results are discussed in terms of prior work showing a speech‐specific deficit in audiovisual temporal function in ASD, and in light of current theories of autism focusing on sensory noise and stability of perceptual representations. Autism Res 2017, 10: 121–129. © 2016 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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  • Children with ASD seem to possess a wider window of audiovisual temporal integration.

    “Children with ASD seem to possess a wider window of audiovisual temporal integration (Stevenson et al. 2017; Noel et al. 2017), and higher auditory gap detection thresholds (Foss-Feig et al. 2017).”

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    The Results section reports a wider audiovisual temporal binding window in children and adolescents with ASD for speech stimuli. It reports no group difference for tool or flash-beep stimuli, so the unqualified claim about audiovisual integration is broader than this paper's finding. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Noel, J., De Niear, M. A., Stevenson, R., Alais, D., & Wallace, M. T.
Affiliations
  • Vanderbilt University (US)
  • Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee
  • Western University (CA)
  • The University of Sydney (AU)
Corresponding author
Wallace, Mark T.
ORCID
Venue
Autism Research
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2016-05-09
Volume
10
Issue
1
Pages
121-129
ISSN
  • 1939-3792 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-3806
DOI
10.1002/aur.1633
PMC
PMC10791168
OpenAlex
W2387891818
Cited by
113
References
5
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FWCI
20.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Autism Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Simons Foundation
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH112336, T32MH064913)
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (F32DC011993)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U54HD083211)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, simultaneity judgment, audiovisual asynchrony, speech perception, sensory noise, perceptual stability, social communication deficits, children and adolescents
MeSH terms
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Auditory Perception, Child, Female, Humans, Judgment, Male, Photic Stimulation, Time Perception, Visual Perception

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