creators_name: Balkenius, Christian
creators_name: Bjorne, Petra
editors_name: Berthouze, Luc
editors_name: Kozima, Hideki
editors_name: Prince, Christopher G.
editors_name: Sandini, Giulio
editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi
editors_name: Metta, Giorgio
editors_name: Balkenius, Christian
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-04-14
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:49
metadata_visibility: show
title: First Steps Toward a Computational Theory of Autism
ispublished: pub
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
full_text_status: public
keywords: reinforcement learning, context processing, attention, autism, computational model
abstract: A computational model with three interacting components for context sensitive reinforcement learning, context processing and automation can autonomously learn a focus attention and a shift attention task. The performance of the model is similar to that of normal children, and when a single parameter is changed, the performance on the two tasks approaches that of autistic children.
date: 2004
date_type: published
volume: 117
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
pagerange: 27-34
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Balkenius, Christian and Bjorne, Petra  (2004) First Steps Toward a Computational Theory of Autism.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4055/1/balkenius.pdf