Nonetheless, by this means it is capable of modeling many effects attributed to inferential processing.
Here, we measured event-related brain potentials to visual sequences designed to elicit inferential processing.
With printed materials, individual differences in working memory have been associated with differences in text comprehension (Daneman & Merikle, 1996), because working memory constrains inferential processing and model construction (Barreyro, Cevasco, Burin, & Molinari, 2012).
It may be that inferential processing based on additional contextual or social information present in the environment could help children with ASD to overcome the pitfalls of an object-based intention guessing mechanism.
However, even with this additional inferential processing the comprehension of others could hardly reach the reliability and, especially, the effortlessness typical of action understanding based on one's own motor competence.
In contrast, when, as in the case of simple contact, the motor act is poorly related to the object, the time for trying to understand the agent's intention become longer, requiring a more sophisticated analysis of the visual scene and possibly (see below) the involvement of inferential processing.
Interestingly, the STS region, notably its posterior part, is recruited by relatively low level processes such as observation of biological motion [18], and also higher level operations such as social inferential processing in tasks requiring mentalizing, animacy detection and theory of mind [19] [21].
They argue that this was due to mental state decoding tasks being based on more spontaneous/automatic inferential processing than theory of mind tasks involving effortful verbal processing.
In particular, it has been proposed that embodied representations of affect, which should be relevant for empathic processing, may be further integrated into meta-representational or inferential processing (Keysers and Gazzola 2007; Spengler et al. 2009; De Lange et al. 2008; Mitchell 2005).
To begin with a common-sense definition, default interpretation of the speaker's utterance is normally understood to mean salient meaning intended by the speaker, or presumed by the addressee to have been intended, and recovered (a) without the help of inference from the speaker's intentions or (b) without conscious inferential process altogether.
