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AI and Speech-Communication in Autism

AI and speech in autistics.
Hari Srinivasan

These are thoughts I've been mulling over for a while now and have been slowly writing up. 

Overriding consideration: Cost, Accessibility, Portable, User-friendly and helps our communication & functioning in society. 

How can AI help? Some thoughts.

Stimulus Value Gates Multisensory Integration

[Concepts in Sensorimotor Research]

Application to Autism. 

The advantage of a good filtering system is less getting overwhelmed by your sensory environment in the real world, but the disadvantage was that you could lose out on critical information. This almost automatic value-based filtering ability is, I think, an issue many autistics like me struggle with. But even with extensive experience, value-based filters could vary around task domain, context-specific or even things like predictability.  Which is still, i think, why we still face challenges in trying to understand what exactly is going on in the non-neurotypical populations. 

Bean, N. L., Stein, B. E., & Rowland, B. A. (2021). Stimulus value gates multisensory integration. European Journal of Neuroscience, 53(9), 3142-3159.

Summary of the paper we discussed in my Multisensory Integration seminar this week.