Kathryn E Prescott, Caroline Larson, Mackenzie J Stabile, Inge-Marie Eigsti
{"title":"Sound-symbol correspondence in autism: The <i>Bouba</i>-<i>Kiki</i> effect.","authors":"Kathryn E Prescott, Caroline Larson, Mackenzie J Stabile, Inge-Marie Eigsti","doi":"10.1016/j.reia.2026.202789","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autistic and non-autistic adolescents and adults with cognitive and language skills in the average range completed a brief task assessing their susceptibility to the effects of image-sound associations, known as the Bouba-Kiki effect. Results indicated significant group differences such that the autism group was less likely to respond in accordance with the Bouba-Kiki effect. Further, nonverbal IQ and self-reported sensory-motor processing each influenced Bouba-Kiki responding. In contrast, language abilities (grammaticality judgment) did not. While findings based on a brief measure are not conclusive, results suggest that multisensory integration is less robust in autism and lend support to \"embodied cognition\" accounts of autism.</p>","PeriodicalId":520959,"journal":{"name":"Research in autism","volume":"131 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13456518/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Research in autism","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2026.202789","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/1/8 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Autistic and non-autistic adolescents and adults with cognitive and language skills in the average range completed a brief task assessing their susceptibility to the effects of image-sound associations, known as the Bouba-Kiki effect. Results indicated significant group differences such that the autism group was less likely to respond in accordance with the Bouba-Kiki effect. Further, nonverbal IQ and self-reported sensory-motor processing each influenced Bouba-Kiki responding. In contrast, language abilities (grammaticality judgment) did not. While findings based on a brief measure are not conclusive, results suggest that multisensory integration is less robust in autism and lend support to "embodied cognition" accounts of autism.
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
京公网安备 11010802042870号
