Stimming and Stereotypy
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation June 17, 2026 Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez
Improvisation is being adopted by three distinct theories of sensory integration: one based on personal experience of sensory dysfunction and extended into autism, another from computational neuroscience via predictive processing, and a third from ecological approaches to action and perception. The latter two models describe their cognitive processes as abductive reasoning, which, when brought into conscious awareness, they term improvisation.