Kelsey Perrykkad

Monash University (Australia) · Psychiatry

The stereotype of autism spectrum conditions (ASC or ‘autism’) focuses on the social and communicative elements of the diagnostic criteria. In this review, we step back from autism as a social and communicative disorder and focus on the autistic self. The autistic self is a key component of the condition which has nevertheless received comparativel...

FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT https://cogphillab.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/accepted-unformatted.pdf Non-goal-directed actions have been relatively neglected in cognitive science, but are ubiquitous and related to important cognitive functions. Fidgeting is seemingly one subtype of non-goal-directed action which is ripe for a functional account. What's...

Background How we build and maintain representations of ourselves involves both explicit features which are consciously accessible on reflection and implicit processes which are not, such as attentional biases. Understanding relations between different ways of measuring self-cognition both within and across such cognitive domains is important for u...

Sometimes agents choose to occupy environments that are neither traditionally rewarding nor worth exploring, but which rather promise to help minimise uncertainty related to what they can control. Selecting environments that afford inferences about agency seems a foundational aspect of environment selection dynamics-if an agent can't form reliable...

Among all their sensations, agents need to distinguish between those caused by themselves and those caused by external causes. The ability to infer agency is particularly challenging under conditions of uncertainty. Within the predictive processing framework, this should happen through active control of prediction error that closes the action-perce...

Embodied cognition—the idea that mental states and processes should be understood in relation to one’s bodily constitution and interactions with the world—remains a controversial topic within cognitive science. Recently, however, increasing interest in predictive processing theories among proponents and critics of embodiment alike has raised hopes...

The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed that foetal brain development is supported by bottom-up (interoceptive) inputs from spontaneous physiological rhythms such as the heartbeat (Corcoran et al., in press). Here, we expand this visceral a...

Sound field amplification (SFA) has recently attracted interest as an inclusive classroom adjustment for children on the autism spectrum. When functioning optimally, SFA improves the signal-to-noise ratio in the classroom by maintaining the teacher’s voice at a higher level than the classroom noise. In this paper, we will report on the results of a...

Embodied cognition – the idea that mental states and processes should be understood in relation to one’s bodily constitution and interactions with the world – remains a controversial topic within cognitive science. Recently, however, increasing interest in predictive processing theories amongst proponents and critics of embodiment alike has raised...

By definition, compassionate actions aim to relieve suffering. Perhaps, then, one barrier to compassion is a general lack of belief in the efficacy of one’s actions. Further, beliefs of inefficacy may relate to how coherently and stably one represents themselves; and action beliefs may mediate the recently identified correlation between self-concep...

Background and aims: Substance use disorders (SUD) are associated with cognitive deficits that are not always addressed in current treatments, and this hampers recovery. Cognitive training and remediation interventions are well suited to fill the gap for managing cognitive deficits in SUD. We aimed to reach consensus on recommendations for develop...

Background and Aims Substance use disorders (SUD) are associated with cognitive deficits that are not always addressed in current treatments, and this hampers recovery. Cognitive training and remediation interventions are well suited to fill the gap for managing cognitive deficits in SUD. We aimed to reach consensus on recommendations for developin...

By definition, compassionate actions aim to relieve suffering. Perhaps one barrier to compassion is a general lack of belief in the efficacy of one's actions. Further, beliefs of inefficacy may relate to how coherently and stably one represents themselves; and action beliefs may mediate the recently identified correlation between self-concept clari...

Atypical motor coordination and cognitive processes, such as response inhibition and working memory, have been extensively researched in individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Oculomotor neural circuits overlap extensively with regions involved in motor planning and cognition, therefore studies of oculomotor function may...

Purpose: This study aimed to determine if sound-field amplification (SFA) could be used as an inclusive classroom adjustment to support primary school students with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Methods: A two-group, randomised controlled trial (RCT) with crossover was conducted involving 13 students with ASD (9 males, aged 7.6 to 8.4...

Sometimes agents choose to occupy environments that are neither traditionally rewarding or worth exploring, but which rather promise to help minimise uncertainty related to what they can control. Selecting environments that afford inferences about agency seems a foundational aspect of environment selection dynamics – if an agent can’t form reliable...

Among all their sensations, agents need to distinguish between those caused by themselves and those caused by external causes. The ability to infer agency is particularly challenging under conditions of uncertainty. Within the predictive processing framework, this should happen through active control of prediction error that closes the action-perce...

Purpose Student competency in science learning relies on students being able to interpret and use multimodal representations to communicate understandings. Moreover, collaborative learning, in which students may share physiological arousal, can positively affect group performance. This paper aims to observe changes in student attitudes and beliefs,...

Purpose: To examine the ‘acoustic health’ of primary school classrooms in Brisbane, Australia. Methods: An acoustic survey was conducted on 33 primary school classrooms in Brisbane, Australia. The classrooms were typical for the region being single cell or dual cells separated by a concertina divider, varying in volume from 69 to 378 m³, and made p...

Ward’s signal detection theory-based framework elucidates some aspects of interindividual differences in sensitivity, but, we argue, obscures others. Specifically, it disregards the important challenge of inferring the meaning of sensory inputs. Within Bayesian predictive coding accounts, the meaning is given by inferences to more deeply hidden cau...

Many autistic behaviours can rightly be classified as adaptive , but why these behaviours differ from adaptive neurotypical behaviours in the same environment requires explanation. I argue that predictive processing accounts best explain why autistic people engage different adaptive responses to the environment and, further, account for evidence le...

Purpose This paper systematically reviews the literature to determine if improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improves classroom performance in students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods Six databases were searched for the terms acoustics, signal-to-noise ratio, classroom and ASD. Five studies were found that met the selection crit...

Differing worldviews give interdisciplinary work value. However, these same differences are the primary hurdle to productive communication between disciplines. Here, we argue that philosophical issues of metaphysics and epistemology subserve many of the differences in language, methods and motivation that plague interdisciplinary fields like educat...

Teaching students to use and interpret different representational tools is critically important if they are to be scientifically literate, to understand how scientific ideas and concepts are represented and to appreciate how scientists think and act. Moreover, students not only need to be competent at using and explaining representations and learni...

Our sense of agency is thought to arise from the predictive nature of the action system.While previous research supports the role of motor-specific identity prediction in thesense of agency, it remains unclear whether identity-specific predictions (e.g., the pitchof a tone) that are not uniquely associated with specific motor responses also have as...

This paper describes a novel approach to teaching introductory-level students how to engage with philosophical texts, developed in the context of a philosophy of art course. We aimed to enhance students' motivation to read philosophy well by cultivating habits of active reading. To this end we created a structured set of three assignments: (1) inst...