Digitized Autism Observation Diagnostic Schedule: Social Interactions beyond the Limits of the Naked Eye.

ABSTRACT: The complexity and non-linear dynamics of socio-motor phenomena underlying social interactions are often missed by observation methods that attempt to capture, describe, and rate the exchange in real time. Unknowingly to the rater, socio-motor behaviors of a dyad exert mutual influence over each other through subliminal mirroring and shared cohesiveness that escape the naked eye. Implicit in these ratings nonetheless is the assumption that the other participant of the social dyad has an identical nervous system as that of the interlocutor, and that sensory-motor information is processed similarly by both agents' brains. What happens when this is not the case? We here use the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) to formally study social dyadic interactions, at the macro- and micro-

SUBMITTER: Bokadia H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7711822 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature