Is Autism due to Predictive Coding Problems?

[BillTre]

This long Science magazine news article describes a model that tries to explain autism as a problem in predictive coding of the nervous system.
The result is that many common stimuli seem surprising.

There is a discussion of predictive coding in the nervous system and how it relates to machine learning.
Schizophrenia may be the inverse of the autism situation.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Fantastic read!

 

[gleem]

I too have read that article and believe that it may be helpful in explaining learning issues in persons not necessarily diagnosed as autistic or even mildly autistic if I read it correctly.