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An aberrant precision account of autism

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, May 2014
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Title
An aberrant precision account of autism
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, May 2014
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00302
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Authors

Rebecca P. Lawson, Geraint Rees, Karl J. Friston

Abstract

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by problems with social-communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. A recent and thought-provoking article presented a normative explanation for the perceptual symptoms of autism in terms of a failure of Bayesian inference (Pellicano and Burr, 2012). In response, we suggested that when Bayesian inference is grounded in its neural instantiation-namely, predictive coding-many features of autistic perception can be attributed to aberrant precision (or beliefs about precision) within the context of hierarchical message passing in the brain (Friston et al., 2013). Here, we unpack the aberrant precision account of autism. Specifically, we consider how empirical findings-that speak directly or indirectly to neurobiological mechanisms-are consistent with the aberrant encoding of precision in autism; in particular, an imbalance of the precision ascribed to sensory evidence relative to prior beliefs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Australia 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 617 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 131 21%
Researcher 87 14%
Student > Bachelor 81 13%
Student > Master 70 11%
Professor 30 5%
Other 106 17%
Unknown 125 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 228 36%
Neuroscience 99 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 31 5%
Computer Science 14 2%
Other 58 9%
Unknown 165 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 March 2024.
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#661,371
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Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#285
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#5,952
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#14
of 237 outputs
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