[article]
| Titre : |
Autism, Context/Noncontext Information Processing, and Atypical Development |
| Type de document : |
Texte imprimé et/ou numérique |
| Auteurs : |
John R. SKOYLES, Auteur |
| Année de publication : |
2011 |
| Article en page(s) : |
14 p. |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
Autism has been attributed to a deficit in contextual information processing. Attempts to understand autism in terms of such a defect, however, do not include more recent computational work upon context. This work has identified that context information processing depends upon the extraction and use of the information hidden in higher-order (or indirect) associations. Higher-order associations underlie the cognition of context rather than that of situations. This paper starts by examining the differences between higher-order and first-order (or direct) associations. Higher-order associations link entities not directly (as with first-order ones) but indirectly through all the connections they have via other entities. Extracting this information requires the processing of past episodes as a totality. As a result, this extraction depends upon specialised extraction processes separate from cognition. This information is then consolidated. Due to this difference, the extraction/consolidation of higher-order information can be impaired whilst cognition remains intact. Although not directly impaired, cognition will be indirectly impaired by knock on effects such as cognition compensating for absent higher-order information with information extracted from first-order associations. This paper discusses the implications of this for the inflexible, literal/immediate, and inappropriate information processing of autistic individuals. |
| En ligne : |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/681627 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=149 |
in Autism Research and Treatment > (June 2011) . - 14 p.
[article] Autism, Context/Noncontext Information Processing, and Atypical Development [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / John R. SKOYLES, Auteur . - 2011 . - 14 p. Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Autism Research and Treatment > (June 2011) . - 14 p.
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
Autism has been attributed to a deficit in contextual information processing. Attempts to understand autism in terms of such a defect, however, do not include more recent computational work upon context. This work has identified that context information processing depends upon the extraction and use of the information hidden in higher-order (or indirect) associations. Higher-order associations underlie the cognition of context rather than that of situations. This paper starts by examining the differences between higher-order and first-order (or direct) associations. Higher-order associations link entities not directly (as with first-order ones) but indirectly through all the connections they have via other entities. Extracting this information requires the processing of past episodes as a totality. As a result, this extraction depends upon specialised extraction processes separate from cognition. This information is then consolidated. Due to this difference, the extraction/consolidation of higher-order information can be impaired whilst cognition remains intact. Although not directly impaired, cognition will be indirectly impaired by knock on effects such as cognition compensating for absent higher-order information with information extracted from first-order associations. This paper discusses the implications of this for the inflexible, literal/immediate, and inappropriate information processing of autistic individuals. |
| En ligne : |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/681627 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=149 |
|
Autism, Context/Noncontext Information Processing, and Atypical Development in Autism Research and Treatment, (June 2011)
