Stability of Variables Derived From Measures of Multisensory Function in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Overview

Journal Am J Intellect Dev Disabil

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2020 Jul 2

PMID 32609807

Citations 10

Authors

Kacie Dunham

Jacob I Feldman

Yupeng Liu

Margaret Cassidy

Julie G Conrad

Pooja Santapuram

Evan Suzman

Alexander Tu

Iliza Butera

David M Simon

Neill Broderick

Mark T Wallace

David Lewkowicz

Tiffany G Woynaroski

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Abstract

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display differences in multisensory function as quantified by several different measures. This study estimated the stability of variables derived from commonly used measures of multisensory function in school-aged children with ASD. Participants completed: a simultaneity judgment task for audiovisual speech, tasks designed to elicit the McGurk effect, listening-in-noise tasks, electroencephalographic recordings, and eye-tracking tasks. Results indicate the stability of indices derived from tasks tapping multisensory processing is variable. These findings have important implications for measurement in future research. Averaging scores across repeated observations will often be required to obtain acceptably stable estimates and, thus, to increase the likelihood of detecting effects of interest, as it relates to multisensory processing in children with ASD.

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