Atypical audio-visual neural synchrony and speech processing in early autism / Xiaoyue WANG in Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 17 (2025)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders > 17 (2025) Titre : Atypical audio-visual neural synchrony and speech processing in early autism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Xiaoyue WANG, Auteur ; Sophie BOUTON, Auteur ; Nada KOJOVIC, Auteur ; Anne-Lise GIRAUD, Auteur ; Marie SCHAER, Auteur Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Humans  Female  Male  Speech Perception/physiology  Autism Spectrum Disorder/physiopathology  Child, Preschool  Electroencephalography  Visual Perception/physiology  Auditory Perception/physiology  Eye-Tracking Technology  Child  Photic Stimulation  Brain/physiopathology  Acoustic Stimulation  Audio-visual  Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)  Gaze direction  Oscillation phase entrainment  Speech envelope  Visual motion  Ethics approval and consent to participate: Informed consent was obtained from  the parents of all participants prior to inclusion in the study. The research was  conducted with the ethical standards set forth by the Ethics Committee of the  Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva Hospital and adhered to the  principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Competing interests: The  authors declare no conflict of interest. Preprint servers: The manuscript was  deposited as a preprint in bioRxiv with the license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Children with Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit communication difficulties that may stem from basic auditory temporal integration impairment but also be aggravated by an audio-visual integration deficit, resulting in a lack of interest in face-to-face communication. This study addresses whether speech processing anomalies in young autistic children (mean age 3.09-year-old) are associated with alterations of audio-visual temporal integration. METHODS: We used high-density electroencephalography (HD-EEG) and eye tracking to record brain activity and gaze patterns in 31 children with ASD (6 females) and 33 typically developing (TD) children (11 females), while they watched cartoon videos. Neural responses to temporal audio-visual stimuli were analyzed using Temporal Response Functions model and phase analyses for audiovisual temporal coordination. RESULTS: The reconstructability of speech signals from auditory responses was reduced in children with ASD compared to TD, but despite more restricted gaze patterns in ASD it was similar for visual responses in both groups. Speech reception was most strongly affected when visual speech information was also present, an interference that was not seen in TD children. These differences were associated with a broader phase angle distribution (exceeding pi/2) in the EEG theta range in children with ASD, signaling reduced reliability of audio-visual temporal alignment. CONCLUSION: These findings show that speech processing anomalies in ASD do not stand alone and that they are associated already at a very early development stage with audio-visual imbalance with poor auditory response encoding and disrupted audio-visual temporal coordination. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11689-025-09593-w Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=576 [article] Atypical audio-visual neural synchrony and speech processing in early autism [texte imprimé] / Xiaoyue WANG, Auteur ; Sophie BOUTON, Auteur ; Nada KOJOVIC, Auteur ; Anne-Lise GIRAUD, Auteur ; Marie SCHAER, Auteur. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders > 17 (2025) Mots-clés : Humans  Female  Male  Speech Perception/physiology  Autism Spectrum Disorder/physiopathology  Child, Preschool  Electroencephalography  Visual Perception/physiology  Auditory Perception/physiology  Eye-Tracking Technology  Child  Photic Stimulation  Brain/physiopathology  Acoustic Stimulation  Audio-visual  Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)  Gaze direction  Oscillation phase entrainment  Speech envelope  Visual motion  Ethics approval and consent to participate: Informed consent was obtained from  the parents of all participants prior to inclusion in the study. The research was  conducted with the ethical standards set forth by the Ethics Committee of the  Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva Hospital and adhered to the  principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Competing interests: The  authors declare no conflict of interest. Preprint servers: The manuscript was  deposited as a preprint in bioRxiv with the license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Children with Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit communication difficulties that may stem from basic auditory temporal integration impairment but also be aggravated by an audio-visual integration deficit, resulting in a lack of interest in face-to-face communication. This study addresses whether speech processing anomalies in young autistic children (mean age 3.09-year-old) are associated with alterations of audio-visual temporal integration. METHODS: We used high-density electroencephalography (HD-EEG) and eye tracking to record brain activity and gaze patterns in 31 children with ASD (6 females) and 33 typically developing (TD) children (11 females), while they watched cartoon videos. Neural responses to temporal audio-visual stimuli were analyzed using Temporal Response Functions model and phase analyses for audiovisual temporal coordination. RESULTS: The reconstructability of speech signals from auditory responses was reduced in children with ASD compared to TD, but despite more restricted gaze patterns in ASD it was similar for visual responses in both groups. Speech reception was most strongly affected when visual speech information was also present, an interference that was not seen in TD children. These differences were associated with a broader phase angle distribution (exceeding pi/2) in the EEG theta range in children with ASD, signaling reduced reliability of audio-visual temporal alignment. CONCLUSION: These findings show that speech processing anomalies in ASD do not stand alone and that they are associated already at a very early development stage with audio-visual imbalance with poor auditory response encoding and disrupted audio-visual temporal coordination. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11689-025-09593-w Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=576

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