Autism-Open Access
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Niels Birbaumer

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• Review Article
  Is Autism Monocausal?
  Author(s): Otto E Rossler, Lisa-Ruth Vial, Frank Kuske and Niels BirbaumerOtto E Rossler, Lisa-Ruth Vial, Frank Kuske and Niels Birbaumer
  
  A system-theoretic model of the workings of the brain obtained in a deductive-evolutionary context stands in the background. An intuitive description of the sudden transition of an autonomous optimizer with cognition into an “other-centered” mode of functioning is offered. This “bifurcation” is highly nontrivial. It presupposes a specific rewardability of the individual by the displayed joyfulness of the interaction partner. This is the case if the momentarily experienced reward on the one side, displayed, causes an even larger reward on the other side and vice versa. Secondly, the presence of mirror-competence in both individuals enables a positive feedback to occur across all possible rewards on either side. This type of cross coupling then leads to the occurrence of an event of “seeing with the eyes of the other.” The event can be called “p.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7890.1000206

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