SynthesisAutism : the international journal of research and practice2024
Social motor synchrony in autism spectrum conditions: A systematic review.
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- The benefit of rhythm-based interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis with random controlled trials.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
- Whole-body synchronization in autistic adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Sensory Processing of Time and Space in Autistic Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Genetic variation influences food-sharing sociability in honey bees.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Attenuated behavioral interpersonal synchrony in autistic adults is not explained by perception of timing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Empathic Behavior and Behavioral Synchrony During Video Conversations in Autistic and Non-autistic Adolescents.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- The influence of interpersonal synchrony and autism on impressions of dyadic interactions: a preregistered study.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Synchrony Across Brains.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
- Diagnostic status influences rapport and communicative behaviours in dyadic interactions between autistic and non-autistic people.PloS one · 2025Article
- A handbook forFrontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Evidence of mutual non-verbal synchrony in learners with severe learning disability and autism, and their support workers: a motion energy analysis study.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Article
- The relationship between executive function and the association of motor coordination difficulties and social communication deficits in autistic children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
lay abstractWhen two people interact, they often fall into sync with one another by moving their bodies at the same time. Some say autistic people are not as good as non-autistic people at moving at the same time as a partner. This has led some researchers to ask whether measuring synchrony might help diagnose autism. We reviewed the research so far to look at differences in Social Motor Synchrony (SMS) (the way we move together) between autistic people and people they interact with. The research suggests that interactions involving an autistic partner (either two autistic partners, or an autistic and non-autistic partner) show lower synchrony than a non-autistic pair. However, we recognised elements in the research so far that may have affected SMS in interactions involving an autistic person. One way SMS may have been affected in research so far might be the way interactions have been set up in the research studies. Few papers studied interactions between two autistic people or looked at synchrony in comfortable environments with autistic-preferred tasks. The studies also do not explain why synchrony might be different, or weaker, in pairs involving autistic partners. We use these limitations to suggest improvements for future research.
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