A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Audiovisual Multisensory Integration in Schizophrenia Spectrum…

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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Audiovisual Multisensory Integration in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.

Tyler C Dalal, Noah Brierley, Anne-Marie Muller, Ryan A Stevenson

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Schizophrenia is associated with moderate deficits in audiovisual multisensory integration versus controls

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Audiovisual Multisensory Integration in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.

Tyler C Dalal … Ryan A Stevenson

Multisensory research · Jul 2026

Background

A growing body of literature suggests that there may be deficits in audiovisual multisensory integration in schizophrenia at both the nonsocial and social levels of stimuli.

Results

audiovisual cues are integrated less effectively in schizophrenia than in controls

d 0.60 (95% CI 0.46 to 0.75)

CI excludes the null - significant

More results

Initial searches identified 1552 articles for review, with 17 studies deemed appropriate for inclusion in the meta-analysis.

This impairment was seen regardless of stimulus type, across both social, d = 0.71, 95% CI [0.50, 0.91], and nonsocial, d = 0.49, 95% CI [0.27, 0.71] stimuli and did not significantly differ ( p = 0.150).

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Conclusion

Clinical implications are discussed.

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Audiovisual Multisensory Integration in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Audiovisual Multisensory Integration in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.

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