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Maria Elena Stefanou, Neil M. Dundon, Patricia E. G. Bestelmeyer, Chara Ioannou, Stephan Bender, Monica Biscaldi, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Christoph Klein
(2020).
Late attentional processes potentially compensate for early perceptual multisensory integration deficits in children with autism: evidence from evoked potentials.
Scientific Reports, 10(1), 16157.
Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
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30 Sep 2020
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10.1038/s41598-020-73022-2
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Maria Elena Stefanou,
Neil M. Dundon,
Patricia E. G. Bestelmeyer,
Chara Ioannou,
Stephan Bender,
Monica Biscaldi,
Nikolaos Smyrnis,
Christoph Klein
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- Scientific Reports
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- 10(1), 16157
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- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Abstract
Abstract Sensory processing deficits and altered long-range connectivity putatively underlie Multisensory Integration (MSI) deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The present study set out to investigate non-social MSI stimuli and their electrophysiological correlates in young neurotypical adolescents and adolescents with ASD. We report robust MSI effects at behavioural and electrophysiological levels. Both groups demonstrated normal behavioural MSI. However, at the neurophysiological level, the ASD group showed less MSI-related reduction of the visual P100 latency, greater MSI-related slowing of the auditory P200 and an overall temporally delayed and spatially constrained onset of MSI. Given the task design and patient sample, and the age of our participants, we argue that electro-cortical indices of MSI deficits in ASD: (a) can be detected in early-adolescent ASD, (b) occur at early stages of perceptual processing, (c) can possibly be compensated by later attentional processes, (d) thus leading to normal MSI at the behavioural level.
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