title: The singular nature of auditory and visual scene analysis in autism.
abstract: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder often have difficulty acquiring relevant auditory and visual information in daily environments, despite not being diagnosed as hearing impaired or having low vision. Resent psychophysical and neurophysiological studies have shown that autistic individuals have highly specific individual differences at various levels of information processing, including feature extraction, automatic grouping and top-down modulation in auditory and visual scene analysis. Comparison of the characteristics of scene analysis between auditory and visual modalities reveals some essential commonalities, which could provide clues about the underlying neural mechanisms. Further progress in this line of research may suggest effective methods for diagnosing and supporting autistic individuals.This article is part of the themed issue 'Auditory and visual scene analysis'.
authors.affiliation: NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan.|Taipei City Hospital, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
authors.forename: I-Fan
authors.initials: IF
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan.
authors.forename: Aya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shirama
authors.affiliation: Medical Institute of Developmental Disabilities Research, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, Tokyo 157-8577, Japan.
authors.forename: Nobumasa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.affiliation: NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan kashino.makio@lab.ntt.co.jp.|School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan.|CREST, JST, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan.
authors.forename: Makio
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4354-6690
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kashino
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D014796:Visual Perception
keywords: auditory perception; autism spectrum disorder; neural basis; visual perception