ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
Contextual priors do not modulate action prediction in children with autism.
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- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Empirical Evidence for the Simple Bayesian Model of Autism.Neuropsychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2021Pooled it
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- The effect of volatility in linguistic input on prediction behavior in autistic toddlers.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Perception and adaptation of receptive prosody in autistic adolescents.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Multiple talker processing in autistic adult listeners.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Contextual Priors Shape Action Understanding before and beyond the Unfolding of Movement Kinematics.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Neurorestorative effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on social prediction of adolescents and young adults with congenital cerebellar malformations.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2024Article
- Probabilistic Learning of Cue-Outcome Associations is not Influenced by Autistic Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Social Knowledge & Performance in Autism: A Critical Review & Recommendations.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Review
- Measuring the prediction of observed actions using an occlusion paradigm: Comparing autistic and non-autistic adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Differences in Prediction May Underlie Language Disorder in Autism.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Cerebellar Contributions to Social Cognition in ASD: A Predictive Processing Framework.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Review
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Bayesian accounts of autism suggest that this disorder may be rooted in an impaired ability to estimate the probability of future events, possibly owing to reduced priors. Here, we tested this hypothesis within the action domain in children with and without autism using a behavioural paradigm comprising a familiarization and a testing phase. During familiarization, children observed videos depicting a child model performing actions in diverse contexts. Crucially, within this phase, we implicitly biased action-context associations in terms of their probability of co-occurrence. During testing, children observed the same videos but drastically shortened (i.e. reduced amount of kinematics information) and were asked to infer action unfolding. Since during the testing phase movement kinematics became ambiguous, we expected children's responses to be biased to contextual priors, thus compensating for perceptual uncertainty. While this probabilistic effect was present in controls, no such modulation was observed in autistic children, overall suggesting an impairment in using contextual priors when predicting other peoples' actions in uncertain environments.
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