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Within- and Cross-Modal Integration and Attention in the Autism Spectrum

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Although impairment in sensory integration is suggested in the autism spectrum (AS), empirical evidences remain equivocal. We assessed the integration of low-level visual and tactile information within and across modalities in AS and typically developing (TD) individuals. TD individuals demonstrated increased redundancy gain for cross-modal relative to double tactile or visual stimulation, while AS individuals showed similar redundancy gain between cross-modal and double tactile conditions. We further observed that violation of the race model inequality for cross-modal conditions was observed over a wider proportion of the reaction times distribution in TD than AS individuals. Importantly, the reduced cross-modal integration in AS individuals was not related to atypical attentional shift between modalities. We conclude that AS individuals displays selective decrease of cross-modal integration of low-level information.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Patricia Jelenic for her help with participant recruitment and selection. OC is a research associate at the National Fund for Scientific Research-Belgium.

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This research was supported in part by the Canada Research Chair Program (FL), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (AB, FL), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (FL, GC) and the Research Center of the University Hospital Sainte-Justine (OC).

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  1. Marie Véronneau

    Present address: Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  2. Maxime Pelland

    Present address: Department of psychology of the Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada

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  1. Department of Psychology, Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition (CERNEC), University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Geneviève Charbonneau, Marie Véronneau, Simon Girard, Maxime Pelland & Franco Lepore

  2. Department of Education and Counselling Psychology, School/Applied Child Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Armando Bertone

  3. Perceptual Neuroscience Lab for Autism and Development (PNLab), Montreal, QC, Canada

    Armando Bertone

  4. Centre d’Excellence en Troubles Envahissants du Développement de l’Université de Montréal (CETEDUM), Rivières-des-Prairies Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Laurent Mottron

  5. Institute of Psychology (IPSY) and Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS), University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

    Olivier Collignon

  6. Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Mattarello, Italy

    Olivier Collignon

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GC, SG, and OC designed research; GC, AB, MV, LM contributed in recruiting the participants; GC, MV performed the research; OC, MP, AB, LM and FL contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; CB and MP analyzed data under the supervision of OC; GC and OC wrote the first draft of the paper; all authors commented and approved the final version of the paper.

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Charbonneau, G., Bertone, A., Véronneau, M. et al. Within- and Cross-Modal Integration and Attention in the Autism Spectrum. J Autism Dev Disord 50, 87–100 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04221-8

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