Can children with autism spectrum disorders “hear” a speaking face?
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This study used eye-tracking methodology to assess audiovisual speech perception in 26 children ranging in age from 5 to 15 years, half with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and half with typical development. Given the characteristic reduction in gaze to the faces of others in children with ASD, it was hypothesized that they would show reduced influence of visual information on heard speech. Responses were compared on a set of auditory, visual, and audiovisual speech perception tasks. Even when fixated on the face of the speaker, children with ASD were less visually influenced than typical development controls. This indicates fundamental differences in the processing of audiovisual speech in children with ASD, which may contribute to their language and communication impairments.
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Most studies conclude that individuals with ASD are less likely to report perceptual fusion in the McGurk effect, with their choices typically reflecting the auditory stimulus.
“Most studies have concluded that individuals with ASD are less likely to report this perceptual fusion, with their choices typically reflecting the auditory stimulus (i.e., “ba” (de Gelder et al., 1991; Irwin et al., 2011; Mongillo et al., 2008; Stevenson et al., 2014c; Stevenson et al., 2014d; Williams et al., 2004)”
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- Authors
- Irwin, J. R., Tornatore, L. A., Brancazio, L., & Whalen, D. H.
- Affiliations
- Haskins Laboratories (US)
- Corresponding author
- Irwin, Julia R
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2011-09-01
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1397-1403
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- PMC
- PMC3169706
- OpenAlex
- W2134653595
- Cited by
- 117
- References
- 26
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- FWCI
- 3.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC000403, R03DC007339)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01 HD-0001994, P01HD001994)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, audiovisual speech perception, face perception, gaze behavior, visual speech cues, children, speech perception, language impairment
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Child, Child Development Disorders, Pervasive, Child, Preschool, Communication, Female, Humans, Language Development Disorders, Lipreading, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Perceptual Masking, Reference Values, Speech Perception, Verbal Behavior
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