Poole Daniel, Gowen Emma, Warren Paul A, Poliakoff Ellen
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2015 Oct;45(10):3316-26. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2492-8.
It has been suggested that the sensory symptoms which affect many people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) may be related to alterations in multisensory processing. Typically, the likelihood of interactions between the senses increases when information is temporally and spatially coincident. We explored visual-tactile interactions in adults with ASC for the first time in two experiments using low-level stimuli. Both participants with ASC and matched neurotypical controls only produced crossmodal interactions to near simultaneous stimuli, suggesting that temporal modulation is unaffected in the adult population. We also provide preliminary evidence that visual-tactile interactions may occur over greater spatial distances in participants with ASC, which merits further exploration.
有人提出，影响许多自闭症谱系障碍（ASC）患者的感觉症状可能与多感官处理的改变有关。通常，当信息在时间和空间上一致时，感官之间相互作用的可能性会增加。我们首次在两项实验中使用低水平刺激，对患有ASC的成年人的视觉-触觉相互作用进行了探索。患有ASC的参与者和匹配的神经典型对照组都只对几乎同时出现的刺激产生了跨模态相互作用，这表明时间调制在成年人群中未受影响。我们还提供了初步证据，表明患有ASC的参与者的视觉-触觉相互作用可能在更大的空间距离上发生，这值得进一步探索。
