ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2024
Moving Together: Social Motor Synchrony in Autistic Peer Partners Depends on Partner and Activity Type.
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- Interpersonal motor synchrony in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- A transdiagnostic AI-based measure of interpersonal coordination in autism and other conditions.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Social communication development in a contingent world: insights from autism.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Mother-Child Biobehavioral Synchrony and Its Association With Social Functioning in Autistic School-Aged Children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Whole-body synchronization in autistic adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- duet: An R package for dyadic analysis of motion data generated by OpenPose.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Sensory-movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Article
- Diagnostic status influences rapport and communicative behaviours in dyadic interactions between autistic and non-autistic people.PloS one · 2025Article
- Can similarity of autistic traits promote neural synchronization?Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Smiling synchronization predicts interaction enjoyment in peer dyads of autistic and neurotypical youth.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- Dyadic body competence predicts movement synchrony during the mirror game.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Some suggest autistic people display impaired Interpersonal Synchrony. However, partners of different neurotypes can struggle to connect and empathise with one another. We used Motion Energy Analysis to examine Social Motor Synchrony (SMS) in familiar partners of the same neurotype: pairs of autistic and of neurotypical children. Partners played two shared tablet activities, one to support collaboration by facilitating engagement and other-awareness (Connect), and one with no additional design features to facilitate collaboration (Colours). The neurotypical group showed similar SMS to the autistic group in Colours but lower SMS in Connect. The autistic group displayed similar levels of SMS in each activity. Autistic children can synchronise to a similar, or greater, degree than neurotypical children when the social context and type of task are considered.
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