Séminaire - Elizabeth Pellicano : Shifting Priors: A Bayesian Theory of Perception and Learning in Autism

Stanislas Dehaene


Collège de France - Année 2023-2024


Chaire de Psychologie Cognitive Expérimentale


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Séminaire - Elizabeth Pellicano : Shifting Priors: A Bayesian
Theory of Perception and Learning in Autism


Elizabeth Pellicano


University College London


Changement d'a priori : une théorie bayésienne de la perception
et de l'apprentissage dans l'autisme


Résumé


More than 10 years ago, David Burr and I proposed the use of
computational modelling to identify the mechanisms that underlie
autistic sensation and perception. Specifically, we suggested
that attenuated Bayesian priors could result in autistic people's
unique perceptual experience: the tendency to perceive the world
"as it really is" immediately rather than imbued by prior
experience. In this talk, I review the academic response to this
proposal over the ensuing decade and trace the way in which it
has reshaped the scholarly community's understanding of autism.