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Title
Weak priors versus overfitting of predictions in autism : reply to Pellicano and Burr (TICS, 2012)
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Abstract
Pellicano and Burr (2012) argue that a Bayesian framework can help us understand the perceptual peculiarities in autism. We agree, but we think that their assumption of uniformly flat or equivocal priors in autism is not empirically supported. Moreover, we argue that any full account has to take into consideration not only the nature of priors in autism, but also how these priors are constructed or learned. We argue that predictive coding provides a more constrained framework that very naturally explains how priors are constructed in autism leading to strong, but overfitted, and non-generalizable predictions.
Language
English
Source (journal)
i-Perception. - Place of publication unknown
Publication
Place of publication unknown : Pion Ltd , 2013
ISSN
2041-6695
DOI
10.1068/I0580IC
Volume/pages
4 :2 (2013) , p. 95-97
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Last edited 22.08.2023
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