TY - GEN ID - cogprints4055 UR - http://cogprints.org/4055/ A1 - Balkenius, Christian A1 - Bjorne, Petra Y1 - 2004/// N2 - 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. PB - Lund University Cognitive Studies KW - reinforcement learning KW - context processing KW - attention KW - autism KW - computational model TI - First Steps Toward a Computational Theory of Autism SP - 27 AV - public EP - 34 ER -