Reduced multisensory facilitation in persons with autism

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1704-1710

  Collignon, Olivier ^a,b,c   Charbonneau, Geneviève ^b   Peters, Frédéric ^d   Nassim, Marouane ^e   Lassonde, Maryse ^a,b   Lepore, Franco ^b   Mottron, Laurent ^e   Bertone, Armando ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audition; Autism; Multisensory integration; Vision; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISION;

EID: 84878951597     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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