Brief report: Arrested development of audiovisual speech perception in autism spectrum disorders

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1470-1477

  Stevenson, Ryan A ^a,b   Siemann, Justin K ^a   Woynaroski, Tiffany G ^c   Schneider, Brittany C ^d   Eberly, Haley E ^d   Camarata, Stephen M ^c   Wallace, Mark T ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiovisual; Autism; McGurk effect; Multisensory integration; Sensory processing; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL AID; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84901669915     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-013-1992-7     Document Type: Article

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