As the foundation of human behavior, cooperation is a crucial aspect of children’s social development. However, children with autism are not cooperative in social interactions because of impairments in their motor skills, neurophysiology, and temporal synchronization. Interpersonal synchronization has been found to improve children’s cooperative behavior. Interpersonal synchronous intervention improves cooperative skills of autistic children which relate to cooperation, such as joint attention, pleasant emotion, and motor competence. Meanwhile, it activates the neural system, finally enhances their social adaptation. In the future, research should be done to evaluate the quality of autistic children’s interactions in complex, open-ended social scenarios, beside focusing on the influence of elements such synchronization form, rhythm frequency, and individual characteristics that influence their cooperative behaviors.

合作是人类行为的核心,也是儿童社会性发展的重要体现。孤独症儿童因神经生理、时间同步以及运动能力等缺陷,导致其在社会交往中合作能力不足。研究发现,人际同步可促进儿童的合作行为。通过人际同步干预,孤独症儿童的联合注意、积极情绪及运动技能等与合作相关的能力获得改善,神经系统得到激活,社会适应能力也有所提高。人际同步干预目前仍在同步机制、感知互动质量等方面存在局限性,未来除了关注同步形式、节奏频率及个体差异等变量对孤独症儿童合作行为的作用机制外,还应关注他们在复杂开放式社交场景中的感知互动质量。

国家自然科学基金项目(31971009);; 中国科学院青年创新促进会资助