A computational perspective on autism

A Rosenberg, JS Patterson… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests as a heterogeneous set of social,
cognitive, motor, and perceptual symptoms. This system-wide pervasiveness suggests that …

A theory of autism bringing across levels of description

JP Noel, DE Angelaki - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Autism impacts a wide range of behaviors and neural functions. As such, theories of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) are numerous and span different levels of description, from …

Sensory perception in autism

CE Robertson, S Baron-Cohen - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition, and little is known about its
neurobiology. Much of autism research has focused on the social, communication and …

Perception in autism does not adhere to Weber's law

BS Hadad, S Schwartz - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Perceptual atypicalities are a widely acknowledged but poorly understood feature of autism.
We demonstrate here a striking violation of one of the most adaptive psychophysical …

Neurodevelopmental heterogeneity and computational approaches for understanding autism

S Jacob, JJ Wolff, MS Steinbach, CB Doyle… - Translational …, 2019 - nature.com
In recent years, the emerging field of computational psychiatry has impelled the use of
machine learning models as a means to further understand the pathogenesis of multiple …

Sensory symptoms in autism: a blooming, buzzing confusion?

E Pellicano - Child Development Perspectives, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Autism is well known for the way it affects how a person interacts and communicates with
others. But autism can affect behavior in other important and debilitating ways, such as in an …

[PDF][PDF] Autism: a brain disorder or a disorder that affects the brain

MR Herbert - Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2005 - learningmethods.net
Autism is defined behaviorally, as a syndrome of abnormalities involving language, social
reciprocity and hyperfocus or reduced behavioral flexibility. It is clearly heterogeneous, and …

[HTML][HTML] A learning-style theory for understanding autistic behaviors

N Qian, RM Lipkin - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Understanding autism's ever-expanding array of behaviors, from sensation to cognition, is a
major challenge. We posit that autistic and typically developing brains implement different …

A computational model for cerebral cortical dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders

S Vattikuti, CC Chow - Biological psychiatry, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Perturbations to the microscopic level balance between synaptic excitation
and inhibition and neuron organization in the cerebral cortex are suggested to underlie …

Contrastive machine learning reveals the structure of neuroanatomical variation within autism

A Aglinskas, JK Hartshorne, S Anzellotti - Science, 2022 - science.org
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is highly heterogeneous. Identifying systematic individual
differences in neuroanatomy could inform diagnosis and personalized interventions. The …