doi: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00025 The role of priors in Bayesian models of perception

A commentary on When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception by Pellicano, E., and Burr, D. (2012). Trends Cogn. Sci. 16, 504–510. In a recent opinion article, Pellicano and Burr (2012) speculate about how a Bayesian architecture might explain many features of autism ranging from stereo-typical movement to atypical phenomeno-logical experience. We share the view of other commentators on this paper (Brock, 2012; Friston et al., 2013; Van Boxtel and Lu, 2013) that applying computationa