Audiovisual speech integration in autism spectrum disorders: ERP evidence for atypicalities in lexical-semantic processing

Autism Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-48

  Megnin, Odette ^a   Flitton, Atlanta ^a   R G Jones, Catherine ^c   de Haan, Michelle ^a   Baldeweg, Torsten ^a   Charman, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASD; Auditory; ERP; Language; Multisensory; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIP READING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857574826     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.231     Document Type: Article

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