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In this pre-registered study, we tested 68 intelligence quotient (IQ)-matched participants (31 autistic, 37 typically developing) on four established crossmodal correspondence tasks that span perceptual to conceptual mappings: (1) \u201cFast lemons\u201d (object\u2013adjective), (2) sound\u2013size pairings with Greebles, (3)\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">kiki\u2013bouba<\/jats:italic>\n                    variants, and (4) color\u2013taste matches. A generalized linear mixed-effects model showed a significant main effect of autism, indicating fewer theoretically congruent choices across all tasks. Target consistency increased with age, performance intelligence quotient (PIQ) and with an artificial intelligence (AI)-derived item-difficulty index. Random slopes revealed no task-by-diagnosis interaction, suggesting that diminished correspondence strength in autism generalizes across sensory and semantic domains. These results cautiously point to domain-general accounts, such as predictive-coding \u201chypo-priors,\u201d over multisensory-specific explanations, and highlight crossmodal correspondences as an intriguing window into information processing in autism.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Lay Abstract<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>People often make associations between information that comes from different senses \u2013 things they see, hear, and feel. For example, one of the classic findings in psychology is that most people think the made-up word \u201ckiki\u201d fits a spiky shape, while \u201cbouba\u201d matches a round one. Previous research has shown that people with autism may be less likely to make these typical associations. However, it\u2019s not clear whether this difference is specific to that one example (sound and shape associations) or part of a wider difference in how people with autism link information from different senses. In this study, we tested 68 teenagers and adults (31 autistic and 37 non-autistic), all with similar intelligence quotient (IQ) levels, on four different tasks that involved matching images with other types of information. These included deciding whether a lemon is more \u201cfast\u201d or \u201cslow\u201d, which made-up name fits a creature of a certain size, what taste fits a color, and which name fits a shape. There were no right or wrong answers, but some choices matched what most people typically select. We found that autistic participants across different tasks were less likely than non-autistic participants to choose the most common or expected pairings. These findings suggest that autistic people may form different types of sensory connections, not just in sound\u2013shape tasks but across a broader range of sensory and conceptual experiences. What does this tell us about autistic minds? While more research is needed to know for sure, our findings are consistent with a theory that autistic people may rely less on previous experiences when processing new information. This theory is known as the \u201chypo-priors\u201d account, which suggests that autistic perception is less shaped by learned expectations and more by the raw details of what\u2019s currently being sensed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/13623613261441750","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,21]],"date-time":"2026-04-21T13:20:15Z","timestamp":1776777615000},"page":"1895-1900","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Are Lemons Fast for People With Autism? 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