ArticleAutism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2021
Dysfunction in interpersonal neural synchronization as a mechanism for social impairment in autism spectrum disorder.
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- Synchrony Across Brains.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
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- Applying interpersonal neuroscience for understanding classroom learning in students with ADHD.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Can similarity of autistic traits promote neural synchronization?Experimental brain research · 2024Article
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- Getting in synch: Unpacking the role of parent-child synchrony in the development of internalizing and externalizing behaviors.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
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Social deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been linked to atypical activation of the mentalizing network. This work, however, has been limited by a focus on the brain activity of a single person during computerized social tasks rather than exploring brain activity during in vivo interactions. The current study assessed neural synchronization during a conversation as a mechanism for social impairment in adults with ASD (n = 24) and matched controls (n = 26). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data were collected from the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and tempoparietal junction (TPJ). Participants self-reported on their social communication and videos of the interaction were coded for utterances and conversational turns. As expected, controls showed more neural synchrony than participants with ASD in the TPJ. Also as expected, controls showed less social communication impairment than participants with ASD. However, participants with ASD did not have fewer utterances compared with control subjects. Overall, less neural synchrony in the TPJ was associated with higher social impairment and marginally fewer utterances. Our findings advance our understanding of social difficulties in ASD by linking them to decreased neural synchronization of the TPJ. LAY SUMMARY: The coordination of brain responses is important for efficient social interactions. The current study explored the coordination of brain responses in neurotypical adults and adults with ASD to investigate if difficulties in social interactions are related to difficulties coordinating brain responses in ASD. We found that participants with ASD had more difficulties coordinating brain responses during a conversation with an interacting partner. Additionally, we found that the level of coordination in brain responses was linked to problems with social communication.
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