ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Relationship Between Theory of Mind, Emotion Recognition, and Social Synchrony in Adolescents With and Without Autism.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Children with facial differences experience deficits in emotion skills.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- The Impact of Affective Theory of Mind on Autistic Individual's Perception of Remorse.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
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- Moving Together: Social Motor Synchrony in Autistic Peer Partners Depends on Partner and Activity Type.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- The effectiveness of group interpersonal synchrony in young autistic adults' work environment: A mixed methods RCT study protocol.PloS one · 2024Article
- Rhythm and music for promoting sensorimotor organization in autism: broader implications for outcomes.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Article
- Impaired social concept processing in persons with autistic-like traits.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Early Onset of Impairments of Interpersonal Motor Synchrony in Preschool-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Pathways to peer interaction in ASD and TD through individual and dyadic joint-action motor abilities.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Influence of Pain on Cognitive Dysfunction and Emotion Dysregulation in Chiari Malformation Type I.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022Review
- A psychometric investigation of the multiple-choice version of Animated Triangles Task to measure Theory of Mind in adolescence.PloS one · 2022Article
- Do shapes have feelings? Social attribution in children with autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
- The Mirroring Dance: Synchrony and Interaction Quality of Five Adolescents and Adults on the Autism Spectrum in Dance/Movement Therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Difficulty in social communication and interaction is a primary diagnostic feature of ASD. Research has found that adolescents with ASD display various impairments in social behavior such as theory of mind (ToM), emotion recognition, and social synchrony. However, not much is known about the relationships among these dimensions of social behavior. Adolescents with and without ASD participated in the study. ToM ability was measured by viewing social animations of geometric shapes, recognition of facial emotions was measured by viewing pictures of faces, and synchrony ability was measured with a spontaneously arising interpersonal movement task completed with a caregiver and an intentional interpersonal task. Attention and social responsiveness were measured using parent reports. We then examined the relationship between ToM, emotion recognition, clinical measures of attention and social responsiveness, and social synchronization that arises either spontaneously or intentionally. Results indicate that spontaneous synchrony was related to ToM and intentional synchrony was related to clinical measures of attention and social responsiveness. Facial emotion recognition was not related to either ToM or social synchrony. Our findings highlight the importance of biological motion perception and production and attention for more fully understanding the social behavior characteristic of ASD. The findings suggest that the processes underlying difficulties in spontaneous synchrony in ASD are different than the processes underlying difficulties in intentional synchronization.
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