The basis of hyperspecificity in autism: A preliminary suggestion based onproperties of neural nets

This article reviews a few key ideas about the representation of informatio n in neural networks and uses these ideas to address one aspect of autism, namely, the apparent hyperspecificity that is often seen in autistic childr en's application of previously acquired information. Hyper specificity is s een as reflecting a possible feature of the neural codes used to represent concepts in the autistic brain.