SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2024
Interpersonal motor synchrony in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Interpersonal motor synchrony in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Walking together: exploring australian parent experiences of walking in nature with their preschool children with autism using a bioecological lens.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026Article
- Automated Quantification of Head Motion Synchrony in Peer Interactions of Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth.Developmental science · 2026Article
- A transdiagnostic AI-based measure of interpersonal coordination in autism and other conditions.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Automated Quantification of Affect Synchrony: Links to Autism Risk and Social Communication in Infancy.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Neural and Kinematic Characteristics of Reaching in Autistic Children During Movement Observation, Execution, and Synchronization: An fNIRS Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- 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
- Time contingency and social engagement shape interaction choices in autism and neurotypical development.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Attenuated behavioral interpersonal synchrony in autistic adults is not explained by perception of timing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- GrooVR: an open access virtual reality drumming application to improve pro-sociality using synchronous movement.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Neural Mechanisms of Social Interaction Perception: Observing Interpersonal Synchrony Modulates Action Observation Network Activation and Is Spared in Autism.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Pleasantness makes a good time: musical consonance shapes interpersonal synchronization in dyadic joint action.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Feature derivation and classification of auditory-motor coupling dynamics in healthy and neurologically impaired adults.PloS one · 2024Article
- The relationship between interpersonal distance preference and estimation accuracy in autism.PloS one · 2024Article
- Motivation from Agency and Reward in Typical Development and Autism: Narrative Review of Behavioral and Neural Evidence.Brain sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Introduction: Interpersonal motor synchrony (IMS) is the spontaneous, voluntary, or instructed coordination of movements between interacting partners. Throughout the life cycle, it shapes social exchanges and interplays with intra- and inter-individual characteristics that may diverge in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Here we perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize the extant literature and quantify the evidence about reduced IMS in dyads including at least one participant with a diagnosis of ASD. Methods: Empirical evidence from sixteen experimental studies was systematically reviewed, encompassing spontaneous and instructed paradigms as well as a paucity of measures used to assess IMS. Of these, thirteen studies (n = 512 dyads) contributed measures of IMS with an in situ neurotypical partner (TD) for ASD and control groups, which could be used for meta-analyses. Results: Reduced synchronization in ASD-TD dyads emerged from both the systematic review and meta-analyses, although both small and large effect sizes (i.e., Hedge's g) in favor of the control group are consistent with the data (Hedge's g = .85, p < 0.001, 95% CI[.35, 1.35], 95% PI[-.89, 2.60]). Discussion: Uncertainty is discussed relative to the type of task, measures, and age range considered in each study. We further discuss that sharing similar experiences of the world might help to synchronize with one another. Future studies should not only assess whether reduced IMS is consistently observed in ASD-TD dyads and how this shapes social exchanges, but also explore whether and how ASD-ASD dyads synchronize during interpersonal exchanges.
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