Dynamical methods for evaluating the time-dependent unfolding of social coordination in children with autism.
Dynamical methods for evaluating the time-dependent unfolding of social coordination in children with autism.
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DOI：
10.3389/fnint.2013.00021
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Schmidt RC
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作者：
Fitzpatrick P;Diorio R;Richardson MJ;Schmidt RC
患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 的儿童在社交互动方面存在许多障碍，影响他们与他人的心理和身体协调。我们在此探讨人际运动协调是否可能是理解自闭症儿童的深刻社会问题的重要关键。我们采用了一套实验技术，不仅评估传统的社会能力认知测量，还通过使用社会运动协调的动态测量并分析行为的时间序列记录来评估社会协调的动态结构。初步研究结果表明，在许多社会表现结果指标上，患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童与正常发育的儿童相当。然而，认知社会测量（例如意向性）和动态社会运动测量之间存在显着关系。此外，我们发现更多基于感知的社会协调测量与社会运动协调无关。这些发现表明，社会协调可能不是一个单一的结构，并表明这种多方法和面向过程的方法有望分析社会协调，作为理解自闭症谱系障碍特定社会缺陷的重要途径。
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) suffer from numerous impairments in social interaction that affect both their mental and bodily coordination with others. We explored here whether interpersonal motor coordination may be an important key for understanding the profound social problems of children with ASD. We employed a set of experimental techniques to evaluate not only traditional cognitive measures of social competence but also the dynamical structure of social coordination by using dynamical measures of social motor coordination and analyzing the time series records of behavior. Preliminary findings suggest that children with ASD were equivalent to typically developing children on many social performance outcome measures. However, significant relationships were found between cognitive social measures (e.g., intentionality) and dynamical social motor measures. In addition, we found that more perceptually-based measures of social coordination were not associated with social motor coordination. These findings suggest that social coordination may not be a unitary construct and point to the promise of this multi-method and process-oriented approach to analyzing social coordination as an important pathway for understanding ASD-specific social deficits.