Ten years ago, Pellicano and Burr published one of the most influential articles in the study
of autism spectrum disorders, linking them to aberrant Bayesian inference processes in the …

The predictive coding framework postulates that the human brain continuously generates
predictions about the environment, maximizing successes and minimizing failures based on …

Salient but task-irrelevant distractors interfere less with visual search when they appear in a
display region where distractors have appeared more frequently in the past (“distractor …

A salient distractor interferes less with visual search if it appears at a location where it is
likely to occur, referred to as distractor‐location probability cueing. Conversely, if the current …

Autistic individuals are commonly said–and also consider themselves–to be excessively
literalist, in the sense that they tend to prefer literal interpretations of words and utterances …

The monotropism hypothesis posits that hyper-focus on interests is core to autistic cognition;
moreover, hyper-focus is common in attention dysregulation hyperactivity development …

When a distractor frequently appears in a certain region of a search display, it interferes less
with performance, reflecting learned distractor suppression. While this effect is well …

Autistic people often have an atypical profile of abilities: while excelling in some structured
paradigms, many report difficulties with making real-life decisions. To test whether decision …

People can learn and use both static and dynamic (cross-trial) regularities in the positioning
of target items during parallel,'pop-out'visual search. Static target-location learning also …

What if our previous teachings and beliefs regarding processing stimuli, reading emotions
and understanding human behaviour is all untrue? In this book, Peter Vermeulen …