ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020
Virtual Reality Immersion Rescales Regulation of Interpersonal Distance in Controls but not in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interpersonal motor synchrony in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Comparative effectiveness of virtual reality vs. traditional motor games on developmental functioning and motor skills in autistic children spectrum disorder: a cohort study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Peripersonal space and interpersonal distance as windows onto multisensory body representation in adolescents with overgrowth syndromes.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Altered representation of peripersonal and interpersonal space in psychopathology.Clinical psychology review · 2024Review
- The relationship between interpersonal distance preference and estimation accuracy in autism.PloS one · 2024Article
- Greater interpersonal distance in adults with autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
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- Virtual Reality Expands the Toolkit for Conducting Health Psychology Research.Social and personality psychology compass · 2021Article
- Interpersonal Affective Touch in a Virtual World: Feeling the Social Presence of Others to Overcome Loneliness.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Perception and Motion in Real and Virtual Environments: A Narrative Review of Autism Spectrum Disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Sensorimotor Research Utilising Immersive Virtual Reality: A Pilot Study with Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Brain sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Interpersonal distance (IPD) is a simple social regulation metric which is altered in autism. We performed a stop-distance paradigm to evaluate IPD regulation in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and control groups in a real versus a virtual environment mimicking in detail the real one. We found a bimodal pattern of IPDs only in ASD. Both groups showed high IPD correlations between real and virtual environments, but the significantly larger slope in the control group suggests rescaling, which was absent in ASD. We argue that loss of nuances like non-verbal communication, such as perception of subtle body gestures in the virtual environment, lead to changed regulation of IPD in controls, whilst ASD participants show similar deficits in perceiving such subtle cues in both environments.
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