SynthesisNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2018
Audiovisual multisensory integration in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Effects of Virtual Reality-Based Physical Exercise Interventions on Behavioral, Executive Function, and Motor Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Audiovisual multisensory integration in individuals with reading and language impairments: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Cortical Auditory Processing of Simple Stimuli Is Altered in Autism: A Meta-analysis of Auditory Evoked Responses.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2021Pooled it
- Anomalous Perception of Biological Motion in Autism: A Conceptual Review and Meta-Analysis.Scientific reports · 2020Pooled it
- A Randomized Controlled Trial for Audiovisual Multisensory Perception in Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Trial
- Intact Visual Correlation Detection in Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Staged Audiovisual Speech Integration and Altered Early-Stage Audiovisual Processing in Autistic Children: An EEG Investigation.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Cross-modal training reduced susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion and generalized across stimulus onset asynchronies.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Pregistered movie-fMRI analyses reveal altered visual feature encoding in autism in pSTS.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Binaural Processing Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Audiology research · 2026Review
- Finding the forest in the trees: Using machine learning and online cognitive and perceptual measures to predict adult autism diagnosis.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Reduced inter-subject functional connectivity during movies in autism: replicability across cross-national fMRI datasets.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Relations Between Preferential Looking to Synchronous Audiovisual Speech and Expressive Language in Infants With Autistic and Non-Autistic Siblings.Mind, brain and education : the official journal of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society · 2026Article
- Associations between symptom severity in autism and functional neuroimaging measures of audiovisual speech perception.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Article
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- Examining the independent and combined effects of autistic and ADHD traits on multisensory integration.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Mismatch Negativity and P3a in Unaffected Siblings of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Exploration on the Neurocognitive Implications.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Intact Audiovisual Spatial Integration in Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Investigating autistic hyperfocus and monotropism: Limited convergence of event-related potentials, laboratory tasks, and questionnaire responses.Research in autism · 2025Article
- Postural sway dynamics in adults across the autism spectrum: a multifactor approach.Molecular autism · 2025Article
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Abstract
An ever-growing literature has aimed to determine how individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) differ from their typically developing (TD) peers on measures of multisensory integration (MSI) and to ascertain the degree to which differences in MSI are associated with the broad range of symptoms associated with ASD. Findings, however, have been highly variable across the studies carried out to date. The present work systematically reviews and quantitatively synthesizes the large literature on audiovisual MSI in individuals with ASD to evaluate the cumulative evidence for (a) group differences between individuals with ASD and TD peers, (b) correlations between MSI and autism symptoms in individuals with ASD and (c) study level factors that may moderate findings (i.e., explain differential effects) observed across studies. To identify eligible studies, a comprehensive search strategy was employed using the ProQuest search engine, PubMed database, forwards and backwards citation searches, direct author contact, and hand-searching of select conference proceedings. A significant between-group difference in MSI was evident in the literature, with individuals with ASD demonstrating worse audiovisual integration on average across studies compared to TD controls. This effect was moderated by mean participant age, such that between-group differences were more pronounced in younger samples. The mean correlation between MSI and autism and related symptomatology was also significant, indicating that increased audiovisual integration in individuals with ASD is associated with better language/communication abilities and/or reduced autism symptom severity in the extant literature. This effect was moderated by whether the stimuli were linguistic versus non-linguistic in nature, such that correlation magnitudes tended to be significantly greater when linguistic stimuli were utilized in the measure of MSI. Limitations and future directions for primary and meta-analytic research are discussed.
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