ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
Context sensitivity in action decreases along the autism spectrum: a predictive processing perspective.
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- The active self in autism: multisensory and sensorimotor foundations of bodily self-representation.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Is functional brain connectivity atypical in autism? A systematic review of EEG and MEG studies.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- An examination of active inference in autistic adults using immersive virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Reduced prediction updating shapes serial dependence in autistic traits.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Receptive prosody adaptation to contextual feedback in autistic young adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Balancing Cognitive Flexibility and Stability: The Role of Reward, Autism, and Transdiagnostic Traits.Journal of cognition · 2026Article
- Frontal Disorders and Consciousness: A Review.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2025Review
- Altered representation of peripersonal and interpersonal space in psychopathology.Clinical psychology review · 2024Review
- Functional upper-extremity movements in autism: A narrative literature review.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2024Article
- Erroneous predictive coding across brain hierarchies in a non-human primate model of autism spectrum disorder.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Contextual Priors Shape Action Understanding before and beyond the Unfolding of Movement Kinematics.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Investigating how Explicit Contextual Cues Affect Predictive Sensorimotor Control in Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Testing predictive coding theories of autism spectrum disorder using models of active inference.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Reduced Primacy Bias in Autism during Early Sensory Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- The relationship between the effect of hand visibility on visuotactile temporal resolution and autistic traits.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Repeating patterns: Predictive processing suggests an aesthetic learning role of the basal ganglia in repetitive stereotyped behaviors.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Visuo-motor attention during object interaction in children with developmental coordination disorder.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2021Article
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- Do ostensive cues affect object processing in children with and without autism? A test of natural pedagogy theory.Psychological research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Recent predictive processing accounts of perception and action point towards a key challenge for the nervous system in dynamically optimizing the balance between incoming sensory information and existing expectations regarding the state of the environment. Here, we report differences in the influence of the preceding sensory context on motor function, varying with respect to both clinical and subclinical features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Reach-to-grasp movements were recorded subsequent to an inactive period in which illusory ownership of a prosthetic limb was induced. We analysed the sub-components of reach trajectories derived using a minimum-jerk fitting procedure. Non-clinical adults low in autistic features showed disrupted movement execution following the illusion compared to a control condition. By contrast, individuals higher in autistic features (both those with ASD and non-clinical individuals high in autistic traits) showed reduced sensitivity to the presence of the illusion in their reaching movements while still exhibiting the typical perceptual effects of the illusion. Clinical individuals were distinct from non-clinical individuals scoring high in autistic features, however, in the early stages of movement. These results suggest that the influence of high-level representations of the environment differs between individuals, contributing to clinical and subclinical differences in motor performance that manifest in a contextual manner. As high-level representations of context help to explain fluctuations in sensory input over relatively longer time scales, more circumscribed sensitivity to prior or contextual information in autistic sensory processing could contribute more generally to reduced social comprehension, sensory impairments and a stronger desire for predictability and routine.
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