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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Psychiatry

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  • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) lacks a unified explanation across cognitive, computational, and neural levels.
  • Bayesian probability theory offers a framework to understand ASD through sensory processing differences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize literature on Bayesian approaches to autism.
  • To propose that autism involves altered sensory information weighting in probabilistic inference.
  • To explore implications for predictive processing and active inference.

Main Methods:

  • Literature synthesis of Bayesian theories applied to autism.
  • Exploration of predictive processing and active inference models.
  • Discussion of sensory weighting in relation to ASD characteristics.

Main Results:

  • Autism is hypothesized to involve greater weighting of sensory information in updating environmental representations.
  • Hierarchical Bayesian inference (predictive processing) deepens this understanding.
  • Atypical sensory weighting may affect context-sensitive adjustments and perception of environmental volatility.

Conclusions:

  • Altered sensory weighting in autism has implications for sensorimotor regulation and behavior.
  • Extending Bayesian theories to action is crucial for understanding core ASD features like social interaction and motor control.
  • This framework provides a computational bridge between sensory processing and behavioral characteristics in autism.