McGurk Effect by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Controls: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Zhang, Juan; Meng, Yaxuan; He, Jinbo; Xiang, Yu Tao; Wu, Chenggang; Wang, Shibin; Yuan, Zhen

doi:10.1007/s10803-018-3680-0

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“…These findings indicate that the visual perception of individuals with ASD or higher levels of autistic traits were less affected by auditory information, suggesting a difficulty in integrating audio-visual information. Consistent with this, a recent meta-analysis reported that people with ASD were less likely to experience the McGurk effect, an index of multisensory integration, compared with TD individuals (Zhang et al 2019). Several studies have demonstrated that adults with ASD garnered less additional benefit from audio-visual information when distinguishing or identifying emotions (Charbonneau et al 2013;Xavier et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 73%

Atypical Multisensory Integration and the Temporal Binding Window in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Kawakami

Uono

Otsuka

et al. 2020

J Autism Dev Disord

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The present study examined the relationship between multisensory integration and the temporal binding window (TBW) for multisensory processing in adults with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The ASD group was less likely than the typically developing group to perceive an illusory flash induced by multisensory integration during a sound-induced flash illusion (SIFI) task. Although both groups showed comparable TBWs during the multisensory temporal order judgment task, correlation analyses and Bayes factors provided moderate evidence that the reduced SIFI susceptibility was associated with the narrow TBW in the ASD group. These results suggest that the individuals with ASD exhibited atypical multisensory integration and that individual differences in the efficacy of this process might be affected by the temporal processing of multisensory information.

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confidence: 73%

Atypical Multisensory Integration and the Temporal Binding Window in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Kawakami

Uono

Otsuka

et al. 2020

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…As the wide-ranging implications of MSI alterations in autism have become more apparent, studies using a variety of different paradigms to evaluate this area of functioning have emerged. Some such approaches have included complex stimuli and task demands, like the ability to integrate audiovisual information to process emotional expressions 21 , the speech-in-noise paradigm 22,23 , and the McGurk effect task 24–30 . Other researchers have investigated the issue using more simple approaches using non-social stimuli, such as the flash-beep illusion task 31–34 , and visual search tasks 35,36 .…”

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Reduced multisensory facilitation in adolescents and adults on the Autism Spectrum

Ostrolenk

Bao

Mottron

et al. 2019

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Individuals with autism are reported to integrate information from visual and auditory channels in an idiosyncratic way. Multisensory integration (MSI) of simple, non-social stimuli (i.e., flashes and beeps) was evaluated in adolescents and adults with (n = 20) and without autism (n = 19) using a reaction time (RT) paradigm using audio, visual, and audiovisual stimuli. For each participant, the race model analysis compares the RTs on the audiovisual condition to a bound value computed from the unimodal RTs that reflects the effect of redundancy. If the actual audiovisual RTs are significantly faster than this bound, the race model is violated, indicating evidence of MSI. Our results show that the race model violation occurred only for the typically-developing (TD) group. While the TD group shows evidence of MSI, the autism group does not. These results suggest that multisensory integration of simple information, void of social content or complexity, is altered in autism. Individuals with autism may not benefit from the advantage conferred by multisensory stimulation to the same extent as TD individuals. Altered MSI for simple, non-social information may have cascading effects on more complex perceptual processes related to language and behaviour in autism.

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“…Subjects with ASD are less susceptible to the speech related McGurk illusion (Taylor et al, 2010; Bebko et al, 2014; Stevenson et al, 2014) and show lower sensitivity for temporal synchrony of AV speech events (Bebko et al, 2006). But the picture is not fully consistent (Zhang et al, 2018). Studies exist showing no differences in AV speech perception between ASD and typically developed subjects (Williams et al, 2004).…”

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Auditory Deficits in Audiovisual Speech Perception in Adult Asperger’s Syndrome: fMRI Study

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Audiovisual (AV) integration deficits have been proposed to underlie difficulties in speech perception in Asperger’s syndrome (AS). It is not known, if the AV deficits are related to alterations in sensory processing at the level of unisensory processing or at levels of conjoint multisensory processing. Functional Magnetic-resonance images (MRI) was performed in 16 adult subjects with AS and 16 healthy controls (HC) matched for age, gender, and verbal IQ as they were exposed to disyllabic AV congruent and AV incongruent nouns. A simple semantic categorization task was used to ensure subjects’ attention to the stimuli. The left auditory cortex (BA41) showed stronger activation in HC than in subjects with AS with no interaction regarding AV congruency. This suggests that alterations in auditory processing in unimodal low-level areas underlie AV speech perception deficits in AS. Whether this is signaling a difficulty in the deployment of attention remains to be demonstrated.

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McGurk Effect by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Controls: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Cited by 34 publications

References 47 publications

Atypical Multisensory Integration and the Temporal Binding Window in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Atypical Multisensory Integration and the Temporal Binding Window in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Reduced multisensory facilitation in adolescents and adults on the Autism Spectrum

Auditory Deficits in Audiovisual Speech Perception in Adult Asperger’s Syndrome: fMRI Study

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