A predictive coding perspective on autism spectrum disorders

Boxtel, Jeroen J.A. van; Lu, Hongjing

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00019

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“…Pellicano & Burr (2012) proposed that the use of priors in persons with ASD is attenuated relative to typically developing people and therefore the active process of 4 formulating and testing hypotheses about the world is more immune to suggestion, which results in a tendency to perceive the world more objectively, and a desire to be in more familiar settings. Similar accounts have been developed over the last few years by other researchers (e.g., Davis & Plaisted-Grant, 2015;Lawson, Rees, & Friston, 2014;van Boxtel & Lu, 2013;Van de Cruys et al, 2014).…”

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Susceptibility to Optical Illusions Varies as a Function of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient but not in Ways Predicted by Local–Global Biases

Chouinard

Unwin

Landry

et al. 2016

J Autism Dev Disord

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Susceptibility to Optical Illusions Varies as a Function of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient but not in Ways Predicted by Local–Global Biases

Chouinard

Unwin

Landry

et al. 2016

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…In fact, it has been argued that a single explanation at the cognitive, neural, or genetic level might be intractable [51,52,53]. However, interest in a potentially unifying account has recently re-emerged while making reference to and drawing upon the Bayesian brain hypothesis and particularly the predictive processing and active inference scheme [16,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62]. In the following, we direct our attention to the discussion of this approach and its relevance for ASC.…”

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“…The hypo-prior hypothesis was then reformulated [56,57] within the predictive processing scheme, a more specific Bayesian account [65,66,67,68], while considering social aspects of individual cognition and behavior [60,61]. It is worth noting that the importance of difficulties related to predictions had been noted in the autism literature in the past as well [69].…”

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Beyond Autism: Introducing the Dialectical Misattunement Hypothesis and a Bayesian Account of Intersubjectivity

Bolis

Balsters²,

Wenderoth³

et al. 2017

Psychopathology

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Drawing on sociocultural theories and Bayesian accounts of brain function, in this article we construe psychiatric conditions as disorders of social interaction to fully account for their complexity and dynamicity across levels of description and temporal scales. After an introduction of the theoretical underpinnings of our integrative approach, we take autism spectrum conditions (ASC) as a paradigm example and discuss how neurocognitive hypotheses can be translated into a Bayesian formulation, i.e., in terms of predictive processing and active inference. We then argue that consideration of individuals (even within a Bayesian framework) will not be enough for a comprehensive understanding of psychiatric conditions and consequently put forward the dialectical misattunement hypothesis, which views psychopathology not merely as disordered function within single brains but also as a dynamic interpersonal mismatch that encompasses various levels of description. Moving from a mere comparison of groups, i.e., “healthy” persons versus “patients,” to a fine-grained analysis of social interactions within dyads and groups of individuals will open new avenues and may allow to avoid an overly neurocentric scope in psychiatric research as well as help to reduce social exclusion.

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“…A failure to acquire such contextual knowledge necessary to modulate the direct perception of actions and understand non-observable action goals might even be at the core of developmental disorders like autism (cf. [142,143]). …”

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What are you doing? How active and observational experience shape infants' action understanding

Hunnius

Bekkering

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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From early in life, infants watch other people's actions. How do young infants come to make sense of actions they observe? Here, we review empirical findings on the development of action understanding in infancy. Based on this review, we argue that active action experience is crucial for infants' developing action understanding. When infants execute actions, they form associations between motor acts and the sensory consequences of these acts. When infants subsequently observe these actions in others, they can use their motor system to predict the outcome of the ongoing actions. Also, infants come to an understanding of others' actions through the repeated observation of actions and the effects associated with them. In their daily lives, infants have plenty of opportunities to form associations between observed events and learn about statistical regularities of others' behaviours. We argue that based on these two forms of experience-active action experience and observational experience-infants gradually develop more complex action understanding capabilities.

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A predictive coding perspective on autism spectrum disorders

Cited by 125 publications

References 17 publications

Susceptibility to Optical Illusions Varies as a Function of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient but not in Ways Predicted by Local–Global Biases

Susceptibility to Optical Illusions Varies as a Function of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient but not in Ways Predicted by Local–Global Biases

Beyond Autism: Introducing the Dialectical Misattunement Hypothesis and a Bayesian Account of Intersubjectivity

What are you doing? How active and observational experience shape infants' action understanding

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