Neural similarity and interaction success in autistic and non-autistic adolescents.

ABSTRACT: High-quality social interactions promote well-being for typically developing and autistic youth. One factor that may contribute to the quality of social interactions is neural similarity, a metric which may capture shared perspectives and experiences of the world. The current research investigates relations between neural similarity to peers and day-to-day interaction success as measured through ecological momentary assessment in a sample of autistic and non-autistic youth aged 11-14 years old. Neural similarity was operationalized as the between-participant correlation of participants' neural response to naturalistic video stimuli in areas of the brain implicated in mental state understanding and reward processing. Neural similarity did not have a main effect on interaction success. Howev

SUBMITTER: McNaughton KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889181 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature