When compared to normal non-autistic controls, those with autism spectrum disorder have been found to have smaller minicolumns in the cerebral cortex. related to information processing, smaller minicolumns

Analysis has resolute that minicolumns in the brains of autistic individuals tend to be smaller in size although with the same total number of cells per column. Autistic brains be likely to be larger than average, the effects specify that autistic also have a developed number of mini columns. The neurons in these individual mini columns tends to be reduces in size. Smaller mini columns would skew data processing in service of signal and possibly enhancing the capability to practice stimuli that require discrimination but also potentially at the expense of generalizing the silence of a particular stimulus. Reduced and tightly packed mini columns could also allow for more complex information processing.