Impairments in multisensory processing are not universal to the autism spectrum: No evidence for crossmodal priming deficits in Asperger syndrome

Autism Research

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 383-388

  David, Nicole ^a   Schneider, Till R ^a   Vogeley, Kai ^b   Engel, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Crossmodal priming; High functioning autism; Local processing; Multisensory processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTISENSORY PROCESSING DEFICIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80053917860     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.210     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Hill, J., Raste, Y., & Plumb, I. (2001). The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test revised version: A study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 241-251.
2. Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Skinner, R., Martin, J., & Clubley, E. (2001). The autism-spectrum quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger syndrome/high-functioning autism, males and females, scientists and mathematicians. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31, 5-17.
3. Behrmann, M., Avidan, G., Leonard, G.L., Kimchi, R., Luna, B., et al. (2006). Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processing. Neuropsychologia, 44, 110-129.
4. Blakemore, S.J., Tavassoli, T., Calo, S., Thomas, R.M., Catmur, C., et al. (2006). Tactile sensitivity in Asperger syndrome. Brain Cognition, 61, 5-13.
5. Brock, J., Brown, C.C., Boucher, J., & Rippon, G. (2002). The temporal binding deficit hypothesis of autism. Developmental Psychopathology, 14, 209-224.
6. Dakin, S., & Frith, U. (2005). Vagaries of visual perception in autism. Neuron, 48, 497-507.
7. Dawson, G., Toth, K., Abbott, R., Osterling, J., Munson, J., et al. (2004). Early social attention impairments in autism: Social orienting, joint attention, and attention to distress. Developmental Psychology, 40, 271-283.
8. de Gelder, B., Vroomen, J., & Van der Heide, L. (1991). Face recognition and lip-reading in autism. European Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3, 69-86.
9. Foxton, J.M., Stewart, M.E., Barnard, L., Rodgers, J., Young, A.H., et al. (2003). Absence of auditory "global interference" in autism. Brain, 126, 2703-2709.
10. Grandin, T. (2009). Visual abilities and sensory differences in a person with autism. Biological Psychiatry, 65, 15-16.
11. Happe, F., & Frith, U. (2006). The weak coherence account: Detail-focused cognitive style in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 5-25.
12. Lane, A.E., Dennis, S.J., & Geraghty, M.E. (2011). Brief report: further evidence of sensory subtypes in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 826-831.
13. Magnee, M.J., de Gelder, B., van Engeland, H., & Kemner, C. (2008). Audiovisual speech integration in pervasive developmental disorder: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 995-1000.
14. Magnee, M.J., Oranje, B., van Engeland, H., Kahn, R.S., & Kemner, C. (2009). Cross-sensory gating in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder: EEG evidence for impaired brain connectivity? Neuropsychologia, 47, 1728-1732.
15. McGurk, H., & MacDonald, J. (1976). Hearing lips and seeing voices. Nature, 264, 746-748.
16. Minshew, N.J., Goldstein, G., & Siegel, D.J. (1997). Neuropsychologic functioning in autism: Profile of a complex information processing disorder. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 3, 303-316.
17. Mongillo, E.A., Irwin, J.R., Whalen, D.H., Klaiman, C., Carter, A.S., & Schultz, R.T. (2008). Audiovisual processing in children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1349-1358.
18. Navon, D. (1977). Forest before trees: The precedence of global features in visual perception. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 353-383.
19. Plaisted, K., Swettenham, J., & Rees, L. (1999). Children with autism show local precedence in a divided attention task and global precedence in a selective attention task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 733-742.
20. Russo, N., Foxe, J.J., Brandwein, A.B., Altschuler, T., Gomes, H., & Molholm, S. (2010). Multisensory processing in children with autism: High-density electrical mapping of auditory-somatosensory integration. Autism Research, 3, 253-267.
21. Saldana, H.M., & Rosenblum, L.D. (1993). Visual influences on auditory pluck and bow judgments. Perception and Psychophysics, 54, 406-416.
22. Schneider, T.R., Engel, A.K., & Debener, S. (2008). Multisensory identification of natural objects in a two-way crossmodal priming paradigm. Experimental Psychology, 55, 121-132.
23. Smith, E.G., & Bennetto, L. (2007). Audiovisual speech integration and lipreading in autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48, 813-821.
24. Stein, B.E., Burr, D., Constantinidis, C., Laurienti, P.J., Alex Meredith, M., et al. (2010). Semantic confusion regarding the development of multisensory integration: A practical solution. European Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 1713-1720.
25. Taylor, N., Isaac, C., & Milne, E. (2010). A comparison of the development of audiovisual integration in children with autism spectrum disorders and typically developing children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 1403-1411.
26. Tremblay, C., Champoux, F., Voss, P., Bacon, B.A., Lepore, F., & Theoret, H. (2007). Speech and non-speech audio-visual illusions: A developmental study. PLoS One, 2, e742.
27. van der Smagt, M.J., van Engeland, H., & Kemner, C. (2007). Brief report: Can you see what is not there? low-level auditory-visual integration in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 2014-2019.
28. Williams, J.H., Massaro, D.W., Peel, N.J., Bosseler, A., & Suddendorf, T. (2004). Visual-auditory integration during speech imitation in autism. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 25, 559-575.