ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2021
Greater Social Competence Is Associated With Higher Interpersonal Neural Synchrony in Adolescents With Autism.
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- Is There a Bias Towards Males in the Diagnosis of Autism? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Interpersonal neural synchrony and mental disorders: unlocking potential pathways for clinical interventions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- TALE and Hox Transcription Factors Modulate Adult Behaviors in Zebrafish.Behavior genetics · 2026Article
- Watching Together, Yet Feeling Apart: Interpersonal Neural Synchronization as a Marker of Symptom Severity in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder During Naturalistic Viewing.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- TALE and Hox Transcription Factors Control Adult Behaviors in Zebrafish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Testing the causal relationship between interpersonal closeness and inter-brain synchrony.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Towards Multi-Brain Decoding in Autism: A Self-Supervised Learning Approach.Neuroinformatics · 2026Article
- EEG hyperscanning in intellectual disability: a scoping review with implications for cognitive stimulation therapy.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2026Review
- A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review of Inter-Brain Synchrony and Psychological Conditions: Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Autism and Other Disorders.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Attenuated behavioral interpersonal synchrony in autistic adults is not explained by perception of timing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Is what I think what you think? Multilayer network-based inter-brain synchrony approach.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Examining the Relationship Between Parental Broader Autism Phenotype Traits, Offspring Autism, and Parental Mental Health.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Hyper-brain independent component analysis (HB-ICA): an approach for detecting inter-brain networks from fNIRS-hyperscanning data.Biomedical optics express · 2025Article
- Temporal dynamics of neural activity in autism: dynamical systems perspective on sensitivity, neural learning, and social interactions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Applying interpersonal neuroscience for understanding classroom learning in students with ADHD.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Inter-brain synchrony to delineate the social impairment in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review on hyperscanning studies.Psychoradiology · 2025Review
- Synchrony Across Brains.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Difficulty engaging in reciprocal social interactions is a core characteristic of autism spectrum disorder. The mechanisms supporting effective dynamic real-time social exchanges are not yet well understood. This proof-of-concept hyperscanning electroencephalography study examined neural synchrony as the mechanism supporting interpersonal social interaction in 34 adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (50% female), age 10-16 years, paired with neurotypical confederates of similar age. The degree of brain-to-brain neural synchrony was quantified at temporo-parietal scalp locations as the circular correlation of oscillatory amplitudes in theta, alpha, and beta frequency bands while the participants engaged in a friendly conversation. In line with the hypotheses, interpersonal neural synchrony was significantly greater during the social interaction compared to the baseline. Lower levels of synchrony were associated with increased behavioral symptoms of social difficulties. With regard to sex differences, we found evidence for stronger interpersonal neural synchrony during conversation than baseline in females with autism, but not in male participants, for whom such condition differences did not reach statistical significance. This study established the feasibility of hyperscanning during real-time social interactions as an informative approach to examine social competence in autism, demonstrated that neural coordination of activity between the interacting brains may contribute to social behavior, and offered new insights into sex-related variability in social functioning in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
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