@misc{cogprints4055, volume = {117}, editor = {Luc Berthouze and Hideki Kozima and Christopher G. Prince and Giulio Sandini and Georgi Stojanov and Giorgio Metta and Christian Balkenius}, title = {First Steps Toward a Computational Theory of Autism}, author = {Christian Balkenius and Petra Bjorne}, publisher = {Lund University Cognitive Studies}, year = {2004}, pages = {27--34}, keywords = {reinforcement learning, context processing, attention, autism, computational model}, url = {http://cogprints.org/4055/}, 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.} }