Neural Dynamics of Autistic Behaviors

Category learning. This process enables variations on the same object or event to learn how to activate the same category, or symbol, that represents this object or event in the brain. Activating such a learned category enables the brain to recognize the object or event through a process that includes read-out of the category's learned top-down expectation, which focuses attention upon the critical features that define the category, and helps to stabilize the category learning process.