ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2023
A theory of autism bridging across levels of description.
Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Reduced Motor Preparation and Altered EEG Signatures of Prediction in Autistic Adults.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Pregistered movie-fMRI analyses reveal altered visual feature encoding in autism in pSTS.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A Multimodal Framework for Understanding Perceptual Segmentation of Natural Scenes In Autism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Scikit-NeuroMSI: A Generalized Framework for Modeling Multisensory Integration.Neuroinformatics · 2025Article
- A common computational and neural anomaly across mouse models of autism.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Predictive Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Atypical Iterative Prior Updating Account.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Unique models of embodied cognition and eco-social niches proposed to validate hypothesis of social attunement and mis-attunement with a focus on autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Transcriptomic Evidence Reveals the Dysfunctional Mechanism of Synaptic Plasticity Control in ASD.Genes · 2024Article
- High neural noise in autism: A hypothesis currently at the nexus of explanatory power.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Functional Neurological Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Complex and Potentially Significant Relationship.Brain and behavior · 2024Review
- Autism spectrum disorder variation as a computational trade-off via dynamic range of neuronal population responses.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- BCI Toolbox: An open-source python package for the Bayesian causal inference model.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Virtual environments as a novel and promising approach in (neuro)diagnosis and (neuro)therapy: a perspective on the example of autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Disentangling sensory precision and prior expectation of change in autism during tactile discrimination.NPJ science of learning · 2023Article
- Causal inference during closed-loop navigation: parsing of self- and object-motion.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Autism impacts a wide range of behaviors and neural functions. As such, theories of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are numerous and span different levels of description, from neurocognitive to molecular. We propose how existent behavioral, computational, algorithmic, and neural accounts of ASD may relate to one another. Specifically, we argue that ASD may be cast as a disorder of causal inference (computational level). This computation relies on marginalization, which is thought to be subserved by divisive normalization (algorithmic level). In turn, divisive normalization may be impaired by excitatory-to-inhibitory imbalances (neural implementation level). We also discuss ASD within similar frameworks, those of predictive coding and circular inference. Together, we hope to motivate work unifying the different accounts of ASD.
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