Low-level, prediction-based sensory and motor processes are unimpaired in Autism
| Autor: | James W. Moore, Kate Plaisted-Grant, Christoph Teufel, Johanna Finnemann, Paul C. Fletcher |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Finnemann, Johanna [0000-0002-1049-2155], Plaisted, Katrina [0000-0001-5275-4339], Fletcher, Paul [0000-0001-8257-1517], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Predictive coding
Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder Cognitive Neuroscience Autism Inference Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Sensory system Context (language use) 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Forcematching medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Autistic Disorder 05 social sciences Probabilistic logic Information processing Human brain Intentional binding medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Sensorimotor Action (philosophy) Prediction Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| ISSN: | 0028-3932 |
| Popis: | A new promising account of human brain function suggests that sensory cortices try to optimise information processing via predictions that are based on prior experiences. The brain is thus likened to a probabilistic prediction machine. There has been a growing – though inconsistent – literature to suggest that features of autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) are associated with a deficit in modelling the world through such prediction-based inference. However empirical evidence for differences in low-level sensorimotor predictions in autism is still lacking. One approach to examining predictive processing in the sensorimotor domain is in the context of self-generated (predictable) as opposed to externally-generated (less predictable) effects. We employed two complementary tasks – force-matching and intentional binding – which examine self-versus externally-generated action effects in terms of sensory attenuation and attentional binding respectively in adults with and without autism. The results show that autism was associated with normal levels of sensory attenuation of internally-generated force and with unaltered temporal attraction of voluntary actions and their outcomes. Thus, our results do not support a general deficit in predictive processing in autism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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