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

PERCEPTUAL illusions; AUDIOVISUAL materials; AUDITORY perception; AUTISM; JUDGMENT (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY of movement; SENSORIMOTOR integration; VISUAL perception; TASK performance

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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