Preservation of Categorical Perception for Speech in Autism With and Without Speech Onset Delay

[en] A reduced influence of prior knowledge has been considered to characterize perceptual abilities in people with autism. In this article, we examine this claim by assessing nonlinguistic and linguistic auditory perception abilities in adults with autism, and by further distinguishing between autism with or without a history of delayed language development. We did not observe any reduced influence of prior language knowledge on the perception of speech stimuli nor did we observe any increased perceptual abilities for atypical variants of speech stimuli or nonspeech auditory stimuli, and this relative to a control group matched on age, nonverbal intellectual efficiency, and reading abilities. Our results challenge models claiming a reduced influence of prior knowledge on perception across domains in the AS.

Research Center/Unit :

Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium (L.C., S.M.); Département de Psychiatrie, Université de Montréal, et Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, CIUSSS-NIM, Montréal, Quebec, Canada (L.M.)

Disciplines :

Theoretical & cognitive psychology

Author, co-author :

Chiodo, Liliane ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Psychologie du développement cognitif normal et atypique

Mottron, Laurent; Département de Psychiatrie, Université de Montréal, et Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, CIUSSS-NIM, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Majerus, Steve ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Département de Psychologie

Language :

English

Title :

Preservation of Categorical Perception for Speech in Autism With and Without Speech Onset Delay

Alternative titles :

[fr] Préservation de la perception de la parole catégorielle dans l'autisme avec et sans retard de langage

Publication date :

2019

Journal title :

Autism Research

ISSN :

1939-3792

eISSN :

1939-3806

Publisher :

John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, United States - New Jersey

Volume :

Pages :

1609-1622

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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Name of the research project :

Thèse de doctorat

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique

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