PMID- 31649597 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 1664-1078 (Print) IS - 1664-1078 (Electronic) IS - 1664-1078 (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2019 TI - Auditory Deficits in Audiovisual Speech Perception in Adult Asperger's Syndrome: fMRI Study. PG - 2286 LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02286 [doi] LID - 2286 AB - Audiovisual (AV) integration deficits have been proposed to underlie difficulties in speech perception in Asperger's syndrome (AS). It is not known, if the AV deficits are related to alterations in sensory processing at the level of unisensory processing or at levels of conjoint multisensory processing. Functional Magnetic-resonance images (MRI) was performed in 16 adult subjects with AS and 16 healthy controls (HC) matched for age, gender, and verbal IQ as they were exposed to disyllabic AV congruent and AV incongruent nouns. A simple semantic categorization task was used to ensure subjects' attention to the stimuli. The left auditory cortex (BA41) showed stronger activation in HC than in subjects with AS with no interaction regarding AV congruency. This suggests that alterations in auditory processing in unimodal low-level areas underlie AV speech perception deficits in AS. Whether this is signaling a difficulty in the deployment of attention remains to be demonstrated. CI - Copyright (c) 2019 Tietze, Hundertmark, Roy, Zerr, Sinke, Wiswede, Walter, Munte and Szycik. FAU - Tietze, Fabian-Alexander AU - Tietze FA AD - Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany. FAU - Hundertmark, Laura AU - Hundertmark L AD - Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany. FAU - Roy, Mandy AU - Roy M AD - Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany. AD - Asklepios Clinic North - Ochsenzoll, Hamburg, Germany. FAU - Zerr, Michael AU - Zerr M AD - Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany. FAU - Sinke, Christopher AU - Sinke C AD - Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany. FAU - Wiswede, Daniel AU - Wiswede D AD - Institute of Psychology II, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany. AD - Department of Neurology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany. FAU - Walter, Martin AU - Walter M AD - Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany. FAU - Munte, Thomas F AU - Munte TF AD - Institute of Psychology II, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany. AD - Department of Neurology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany. FAU - Szycik, Gregor R AU - Szycik GR AD - Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20191010 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Psychol JT - Frontiers in psychology JID - 101550902 PMC - PMC6795762 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Asperger's syndrome OT - audiovisual OT - autism OT - fMRI OT - multisensory OT - speech EDAT- 2019/10/28 06:00 MHDA- 2019/10/28 06:01 PMCR- 2019/10/10 CRDT- 2019/10/26 06:00 PHST- 2019/04/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/09/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/10/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/10/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/10/28 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/10/10 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02286 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Psychol. 2019 Oct 10;10:2286. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02286. eCollection 2019.