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Autistic individuals exhibit distinct ways of forming world representations (priors), impacting sensory precision and knowledge integration. Further research is needed to understand these developmental differences in predictive abilities across ages.

Keywords:

autism predictive coding bayesian inference.

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Area of Science:

Computational Neuroscience
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Background:

Computational neuroscience investigates brain processes and disorders, focusing on predictive coding.
Understanding the pathophysiological basis, brain processes, and behaviors in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders is crucial.
Predictive coding theories offer a framework for understanding these complex relationships.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore how autistic individuals create world representations (priors).
To identify the neurobiological and cognitive mechanisms underlying these representational differences.
To analyze the implications of predictive coding theories in autism.

Main Methods:

Systematic literature review of predictive coding in autism.
Analysis of dominant hypotheses: sensory precision, weak priors, and rigid priors.
Focus on prior acquisition and updating processes.

Main Results:

Differences observed in sensory precision, affecting perceptual information processing in autism.
Weak prior hypothesis suggests limited influence of past experiences on current information processing.
Autistic individuals show challenges in prior acquisition and updating, leading to atypical responses to environmental changes.

Conclusions:

Autistic and neurotypical populations show divergent developmental trajectories in predictive abilities.
Further comparative studies across different age groups are necessary to elucidate these developmental processes.