Cited by 885Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentAction Observation and Synchronization

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 306 of the 306 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Precise minds in uncertain worlds: Predictive coding in autism.

Open access
Van de Cruys, Sander, Evers, Kris, Van der Hallen, Ruth, Van Eylen, Lien, Boets, Bart, de-Wit, Lee, Wagemans, Johan·2014·Psychological Review

Abstract

There have been numerous attempts to explain the enigma of autism, but existing neurocognitive theories often provide merely a refined description of 1 cluster of symptoms. Here we argue that deficits in executive functioning, theory of mind, and central coherence can all be understood as the consequence of a core deficit in the flexibility with which people with autism spectrum disorder can process violations to their expectations. More formally we argue that the human mind processes information by making and testing predictions and that the errors resulting from violations to these predictions are given a uniform, inflexibly high weight in autism spectrum disorder. The complex, fluctuating nature of regularities in the world and the stochastic and noisy biological system through which people experience it require that, in the real world, people not only learn from their errors but also need to (meta-)learn to sometimes ignore errors. Especially when situations (e.g., social) or stimuli (e.g., faces) become too complex or dynamic, people need to tolerate a certain degree of error in order to develop a more abstract level of representation. Starting from an inability to flexibly process prediction errors, a number of seemingly core deficits become logically secondary symptoms. Moreover, an insistence on sameness or the acting out of stereotyped and repetitive behaviors can be understood as attempts to provide a reassuring sense of predictive success in a world otherwise filled with error. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1037/a0037665

Cites

306 of 306 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

1 retracted

Flagged first, then by citations

Show all 297 references

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. [22]22. Bauman, M. L., & Kemper, T. L. (1994). Neuroanatomic observations of the brain in autism. In M. L. Bauman & T. L. Kemper (Eds.), The neurobiology of autism (pp. 119 -145). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.
  2. [207]207. Pellicano, E., Gibson, L., Maybery, M., Durkin, K., & Badcock, D. (2005). disorder. Current Biology, 17, 1508 -1512. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.07 .065 · DOI
  3. [265]265. Valentine, T. (1991). A unified account of the effects of distinctiveness, inversion, and race. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 43(A), 161-204.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Items 701–800 of 883

Metadata

Authors
Van de Cruys, S., Evers, K., Van der Hallen, R., Van Eylen, L., Boets, B., de-Wit, L., & Wagemans, J.
Affiliations
KU Leuven (BE)
Venue
Psychological Review
Published
2014
Volume
121
Issue
4
Pages
649-675
ISSN
  • 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1471
OpenAlex
W2098533845
Cited by
885
References
297
Citations by year
2026: 102 · 2025: 81 · 2024: 80 · 2023: 109 · 2022: 85 · 2021: 106 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 76 · 2018: 53 · 2017: 51 · 2016: 35 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 3
FWCI
22.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
other-oa
Locations
  • Psychological Review (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Lirias (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Flemish Government (METH/08/02)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, predictive coding, prediction error, executive function, theory of mind, central coherence, meta-learning, error tolerance, sameness, stereotypy, social cognition
MeSH terms
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Humans, Mental Processes

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review