Priors bias perceptual decisions in autism, but are less flexibly adjusted to the context

LA Sapey‐Triomphe, L Timmermans… - Autism …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
According to the predictive coding framework, percepts emerge from combinations of
sensory input and prior knowledge, whose relative contributions depend on their reliability …

Structural and contextual priors affect visual search in children with and without autism

S Van de Cruys, L Lemmens… - Autism …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bayesian predictive coding theories of autism spectrum disorder propose that impaired
acquisition or a broader shape of prior probability distributions lies at the core of the …

Relating the perception of visual ensemble statistics to individual levels of autistic traits

MX Lowe, RA Stevenson, MD Barense, JS Cant… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2018 - Springer
Integrating information across the visual field into an ensemble (eg, seeing the forest from
the trees) is an effective strategy to efficiently process the visual world, and one that is often …

Implicit learning in 3‐year‐olds with high and low likelihood of autism shows no evidence of precision weighting differences

EK Ward, JK Buitelaar, S Hunnius - Developmental Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predictive Processing accounts of autism claim that autistic individuals assign higher
precision to their prediction errors than non‐autistic individuals, that is, autistic individuals …

Preservation of categorical perception for speech in autism with and without speech onset delay

L Chiodo, L Mottron, S Majerus - Autism Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent accounts of autistic perception, including Bayesian accounts, hypothesize a reduced
influence of prior knowledge on perception across different domains in the autism spectrum …

No evidence for neural markers of gaze direction adaptation in 2-year-olds with high or low likelihood of autism.

EK Ward, R Braukmann, JK Buitelaar… - Journal of Abnormal …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Predictive processing accounts of autism posit that individuals with autism rely less on
expectations than those without autism when it comes to interpreting incoming sensory …

Perceptual effects of fast and automatic visual ensemble statistics from faces in individuals with typical development and autism spectrum conditions

M Chakrabarty, M Wada - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
We investigated whether covert ensembles of high-(emotion), and low-level (brightness)
visual information, extracted from peripheral faces (presentation/encoding: 200 ms) …

High-level visual search in children with autism

SAA Rukab, N Khayat, S Hochstein - Journal of Vision, 2022 - jov.arvojournals.org
Visual search has been classified as easy feature search, with rapid target detection and
little set size dependence, versus slower difficult search with focused attention, with set size …

Autistic and nonautistic adolescents do not differ in adaptation to gaze direction

EK Ward, JK Buitelaar, S Hunnius - Autism Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Predictive processing accounts of autism posit that autistic individuals' perception is less
biased by expectations than nonautistic individuals', perhaps through stronger precision …

Neural responses to global and local visual information processing provide neural signatures of ADHD symptoms

J Yuan, H Pan, Y Sun, Y Wang, J Jia - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Background: Individuals with ADHD exhibit a reduced “global bias” in perceptual
processing. This bias characterizes typical individuals' tendency to prioritize global over …