Since its initial description, the concept of autism has been firmly rooted within the
conventional medical paradigm of child psychiatry. Increasingly, there have been calls from …

There have been numerous attempts to explain the enigma of autism, but existing
neurocognitive theories often provide merely a refined description of 1 cluster of symptoms …

Although sensory processing challenges have been noted since the first clinical descriptions
of autism, it has taken until the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical …

Autism spectrum disorder currently lacks an explanation that bridges cognitive,
computational, and neural domains. In the past 5 years, progress has been sought in this …

Perceptual experience is influenced both by incoming sensory information and prior
knowledge about the world, a concept recently formalised within Bayesian decision theory …

Individuals with autism and individuals with dyslexia both show reduced use of previous
sensory information (stimuli statistics) in perceptual tasks, even though these are very …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are developmental disorders which are thought primarily
to affect social functioning. However, there is now a growing body of evidence that unusual …

Face recognition–the ability to recognize a person from their facial appearance–is essential
for normal social interaction. Face recognition deficits have been implicated in the most …

It has been well established that individuals with autism spectrum disorder report unusual
experiences with sensory stimuli compared with typically develo** individuals. However …

The appearance of faces can be strongly affected by the characteristics of faces viewed
previously. These perceptual after-effects reflect processes of sensory adaptation that are …