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Testing Sensory and Multisensory Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published on: April 22, 2015
Relations Between the McGurk Effect, Social and Communication Skill, and Autistic Features in Children with and
Jacob I Feldman1,2,3, Julie G Conrad4,5, Wayne Kuang4,6
1Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University, MCE 8310 South Tower, 1215 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA. j.i.feldman@vumc.org.
Abstract:
Children with autism show alterations in multisensory integration that have been theoretically and empirically linked with the core and related features of autism. It is unclear, however, to what extent multisensory integration maps onto features of autism within children with and without autism. This study, thus, evaluates relations between audiovisual integration and core and related autism features across children with and without autism. Thirty-six children reported perceptions of the McGurk illusion during a psychophysical task. Parents reported on participants' autistic features. Increased report of illusory percepts tended to covary with reduced autistic features and greater communication skill. Some relations, though, were moderated by group. This work suggests that associations between multisensory integration and higher-order skills are present, but in some instances vary according to diagnostic group.
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