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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
An aberrant precision account of autism
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00302 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Rebecca P. Lawson, Geraint Rees, Karl J. Friston |
| Abstract |
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by problems with social-communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. A recent and thought-provoking article presented a normative explanation for the perceptual symptoms of autism in terms of a failure of Bayesian inference (Pellicano and Burr, 2012). In response, we suggested that when Bayesian inference is grounded in its neural instantiation-namely, predictive coding-many features of autistic perception can be attributed to aberrant precision (or beliefs about precision) within the context of hierarchical message passing in the brain (Friston et al., 2013). Here, we unpack the aberrant precision account of autism. Specifically, we consider how empirical findings-that speak directly or indirectly to neurobiological mechanisms-are consistent with the aberrant encoding of precision in autism; in particular, an imbalance of the precision ascribed to sensory evidence relative to prior beliefs. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 8 | 13% |
| United States | 7 | 11% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 2% |
| Greece | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 41 | 64% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 46 | 72% |
| Scientists | 16 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 641 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 628 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 133 | 21% |
| Researcher | 87 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 79 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 72 | 11% |
| Professor | 30 | 5% |
| Other | 109 | 17% |
| Unknown | 131 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 230 | 36% |
| Neuroscience | 99 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 34 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 32 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 14 | 2% |
| Other | 59 | 9% |
| Unknown | 173 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 March 2024.
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#692,360
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Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#297
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#6,025
of 242,701 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#13
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