Perception and Action in a Social Context

Azaad, Shaheed; Knoblich, Günther; Sebanz, Natalie

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“…Engagement of two partners or more in any social interaction -whether children are playing hide-and-seek, constructing a toy block model, or even walking side-by-side while talking -necessitates the activation of social and motor mechanisms via unconscious mimicry and body motions' synchronization (Azaad et al, 2021). This link between the 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1234376 motor system and social interaction is well described conceptually by the "embodiment" theory, whereby humans' physical bodies play a central role in shaping their experiences, understandings, and interactions in the world (Lux et al, 2021).…”

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Pathways to peer interaction in ASD and TD through individual and dyadic joint-action motor abilities

Estrugo,

Bar Yehuda,

Bauminger-Zviely

2023

Front. Psychol.

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PurposeAny social engagement, especially with peers, requires children’s effective activation of social and motor mechanisms. Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often display dysfunctions both in individual motor functioning (e.g., fine/gross) and in dyadic joint action (JA), where two partners coordinate movement toward a shared goal. Yet, these mechanisms’ contribution to peer interaction has been underexplored.MethodThis study examined the contribution of individual motor functioning and JA performance to peer interaction (cooperation, attentiveness, social engagement, and dyadic quality), while comparing children and adolescents’ (youngsters) with ASD versus those with typical development (TD).ResultsResults indicated more competent peer interaction in TD than in ASD. Interestingly, only the ASD group showed significant maturation with age for social engagement and dyadic interaction quality, calls for further examination of developmental trajectories. However, even the oldest participants with ASD continued to lag behind the youngest TD group. Also, findings indicated that better individual motor functioning and JA performance explained better peer interactive competence; yet, the contribution of individual motor functioning to social cooperation and dyadic quality was moderated by JA performance. Thus, youngsters’ individual motor system was found to be an important contributor to peer interaction in those with low to moderate JA coordination capabilities, but not for those with high JA.ConclusionResults emphasize possible distinct contributions of each motor mechanism and their interaction for facilitating social interaction, hence, encouraging incorporation of individual and dyadic motor skills explicitly into social interaction interventions for youngsters ASD.

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Pathways to peer interaction in ASD and TD through individual and dyadic joint-action motor abilities

Estrugo,

Bar Yehuda,

Bauminger-Zviely

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Social-Motor Coordination Between Peers: Joint Action Developmental Trajectories in ASD and TD

Yehuda

Bauminger‐Zviely

2022

J Autism Dev Disord

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Attending to Moving Objects

Holcombe

2023

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Our minds are severely limited in how much information they can extensively process, in spite of being massively parallel at the visual end. When people attempt to track moving objects, only a limited number can be tracked, which varies with display parameters. Associated experiments indicate that spatial selection and updating has higher capacity than selection and updating of features such as color and shape, and is mediated by processes specific to each cerebral hemisphere, such that each hemifield has its own spatial tracking limit. These spatial selection processes act as a bottleneck that gate subsequent processing. To improve our understanding of this bottleneck, future work should strive to avoid contamination of tracking tasks by high-level cognition. While we are far from fully understanding how attention keeps up with multiple moving objects, what we already know illuminates the architecture of visual processing and offers promising directions for new discoveries.

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Perception and Action in a Social Context

Cited by 12 publications

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Pathways to peer interaction in ASD and TD through individual and dyadic joint-action motor abilities

Pathways to peer interaction in ASD and TD through individual and dyadic joint-action motor abilities

Social-Motor Coordination Between Peers: Joint Action Developmental Trajectories in ASD and TD

Attending to Moving Objects

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