ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Impairments of Social Motor Synchrony Evident in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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78 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Social motor synchrony in autism spectrum conditions: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Pooled it
- Interpersonal motor synchrony in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Understanding the Influence of Social and Motor Context on the Co-occurring Frequency of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Trial
- A transdiagnostic AI-based measure of interpersonal coordination in autism and other conditions.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Synchronisation of circadian timing in families and the impact of autism: a scoping review.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
- Sensorimotor synchronization in children with autism spectrum disorder: The role of timing and modality.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Whole-body synchronization in autistic adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Neural Effects of Creative Movement, General Movement, and Sedentary Play Interventions on Interpersonal Synchrony in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Preliminary fNIRS Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Empathic Behavior and Behavioral Synchrony During Video Conversations in Autistic and Non-autistic Adolescents.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Quantifying Body Motion Synchrony in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using a Phase Difference Detection Algorithm: Toward a Novel Behavioral Biomarker.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mapping the landscape of social behavior.Cell · 2025Article
- The effect of social settings and olfactory environments on spontaneous movement synchrony.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Mapping the landscape of social behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Moving Together: Social Motor Synchrony in Autistic Peer Partners Depends on Partner and Activity Type.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Smiling synchronization predicts interaction enjoyment in peer dyads of autistic and neurotypical youth.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- Social-Motor Coordination Between Peers: Joint Action Developmental Trajectories in ASD and TD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Social interaction links active musical rhythm engagement and expressive communication in autistic toddlers.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- A handbook forFrontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Evidence of mutual non-verbal synchrony in learners with severe learning disability and autism, and their support workers: a motion energy analysis study.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Article
- Ground-based adaptive horsemanship lessons for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled pilot study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
Social interactions typically involve movements of the body that become synchronized over time and both intentional and spontaneous interactional synchrony have been found to be an essential part of successful human interaction. However, our understanding of the importance of temporal dimensions of social motor synchrony in social dysfunction is limited. Here, we used a pendulum coordination paradigm to assess dynamic, process-oriented measures of social motor synchrony in adolescents with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Our data indicate that adolescents with ASD demonstrate less synchronization in both spontaneous and intentional interpersonal coordination. Coupled oscillator modeling suggests that ASD participants assembled a synchronization dynamic with a weaker coupling strength, which corresponds to a lower sensitivity and decreased attention to the movements of the other person, but do not demonstrate evidence of a delay in information transmission. The implication of these findings for isolating an ASD-specific social synchronization deficit that could serve as an objective, bio-behavioral marker is discussed.
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