Towards Cognitive Mirroring: Identifying stimuli and features to investigate hypo-prior in Autism Spectrum Disorder
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2019-08-18
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized not only by problems
with social interaction and stereotyped repetitive behaviours, but studies have
shown that people with ASD also have problems with perception and catego-
rization. Following the hypo-prior account by Pellicano and Burr, I suggest
that problems in ASD are caused by a hypo-prior, and propose an experiment
in which a computational neural network with an adjustable prior-in
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imitates participants in a human-robot interaction to investigate this idea. In
this thesis, I conduct an experiment in which typically developed (TD) par-
ticipants draw trajectories they have observed one step at a time, to explore
how they respond to the task and the di erent stimuli. The aim is to identify
stimuli and features on which TD participants show generalization behaviour.
Any identi ed stimuli and features can be used in further experiments, and
the behaviour by TD participants can be used as a baseline to compare with
behaviour by participants with ASD, to investigate the possible presence of a
hypo-prior in ASD. In short, if participants with ASD show less generalization
behaviour and more accurate replication on trajectories that TD participants
do show generalization behaviour on, that would indicate a hypo-prior in ASD.
I discuss the results from the experiment and make several recommendations
for further experiments investigating hypo-prior in ASD.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen