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aberrant precision account of autism

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Extracted Explainers

What the tool is doing

This account interprets features of autistic perception as consequences of aberrant precision or beliefs about precision during hierarchical message passing in the brain.

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What problem it solves

It offers a predictive-coding-based explanation for perceptual symptoms of autism and for imbalance between sensory evidence and prior beliefs.

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What it does not solve

The abstract does not show that this account is a practical intervention, assay, or validated diagnostic tool.

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Alternatives

The abstract explicitly contrasts this account with a prior Bayesian explanation framed as a failure of Bayesian inference.

Source 1DOI PubMed

Evidence Snippets

Here, we unpack the aberrant precision account of autism.

Evidence 1Source 1DOI PubMedprovenance

Supporting Sources

Source 1primary paper2014Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceDOI PubMed

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Linked Claims

Claim 1conceptual mechanismsupports2014Source 1DOI PubMed

Empirical findings discussed in the paper are consistent with aberrant encoding of precision in autism.

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we consider how empirical findings-that speak directly or indirectly to neurobiological mechanisms-are consistent with the aberrant encoding of precision in autism

Claim 2conceptual mechanismsupports2014Source 1DOI PubMed

Many features of autistic perception can be attributed to aberrant precision or beliefs about precision when Bayesian inference is grounded in predictive coding.

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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)

Claim 3conceptual mechanismsupports2014Source 1DOI PubMed

The aberrant precision account proposes an imbalance in the precision ascribed to sensory evidence relative to prior beliefs in autism.

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in particular, an imbalance of the precision ascribed to sensory evidence relative to prior beliefs