Other and Other Waters in the River: Autism and the Futility of Prediction

Commentary on Gilead, Trope & Liberman’s “Above and beyond the concrete: The diverse representational substrates of the predictive brain”

Matthew K Belmonte

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43:e122, pp 19-20 (19 June 2020).

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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