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Les plaques-boucles de ceinture étudiées sont de forme rectangulaire, composées d’alliage cuivreux et décorées de figurations chrétiennes inspirées de l’Ancien Testament ou de scènes figurées sur du mobilier paléochrétien. Par leur forme et leur matière, elles sont regroupées sous le type D et appartiennent à une chronologie fixée entre la première moitié du VIe siècle et la fin du VIIe siècle.Leur répartition se situe dans l’est de la Gaule mérovingienne – Bourgogne, Franche-Comté, Suisse ro..

Atypical sensory processing is now considered a diagnostic feature of autism. Although multisensory integration (MSI) may have cascading effects on the development of higher-level skills such as socio-communicative functioning, there is a clear lack of understanding of how autistic individuals integrate multiple sensory inputs. Multisensory dynamic information is a more ecological construct than static stimuli, reflecting naturalistic sensory experiences given that our environment involves moving stimulation of more than one sensory modality at a time. In particular, depth movement informs about crucial social (approaching to interact) and non-social (avoiding threats/collisions) information. As autistic characteristics are distributed on a spectrum over clinical and general populations, our work aimed to explore the multisensory integration of depth cues in the autistic personality spectrum, using a go/no-go detection task. The autistic profile of 38 participants from the general population was assessed using questionnaires extensively used in the literature. Participants performed a detection task of auditory and/or visual depth moving stimuli compared to static stimuli. We found that subjects with high-autistic traits overreacted to depth movement and exhibited faster reaction times to audiovisual cues, particularly when the audiovisual stimuli were looming and/or were presented at a fast speed. These results provide evidence of sensory particularities in people with high-autistic traits and suggest that low-level stages of multisensory integration could operate differently all along the autistic personality spectrum.