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Inhibition in cognitive development: contextual impairments in autism

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Summary, in English

Persons with autism, probably due to early sensory impairments, attend to and select for stimuli in an uncommon way. Inhibition of some features of a stimulus, such as location and shape, might be intact, while other features are not as readily inhibited, for example color. Stimuli irrelevant to the task might be attended to. This results in a learning process where irrelevant stimuli are erroneously activated and maintained. Therefore, we propose that the developmental pathway and behavior of persons with autism needs to be understood in a framework including discussions of inhibitory processes and context learning and maintenance. We believe that this provides a fruitful framework for understanding the causes of the seemingly diverse and complex cognitive difficulties seen in autism

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

187-187

Publication/Series

2005 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (IEEE Cat. No. 05EX1079)

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
  • Learning

Keywords

  • developmental behavior
  • learning process
  • sensory impairment
  • autism
  • cognitive development
  • contextual impairment
  • cognitive difficulty

Conference name

2005 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning

Conference date

2005-07-19 - 2005-07-21

Conference place

Osaka, Japan

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 0-7803-9225-6