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Other and other waters in the river: Autism and the futility of prediction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

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Matthew K. Belmonte*
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The Com DEALL Trust, Bangalore560043, India Division of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, NottinghamNG1 4FQ, UK. belmonte@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~belmonte/
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Abstract

Autism has been described as a neural deficit in prediction, people with autism manifest low perceptual construal and are impaired at traversing psychological distances, and Gilead et al.'s hierarchy from iconic to multimodal to fully abstract, socially communicated representations is exactly the hierarchy of representational impairment in autism, making autism a natural behavioural and neurophysiological test case for the prediction–abstraction relationship.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e122
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