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A developmental and clinical perspective of rhythmic interpersonal coordination: From mimicry toward the interconnection of minds

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Imitation plays a critical role in the development of intersubjectivity and serves as a prerequisite for understanding the emotions and intentions of others. In our review, we consider spontaneous motor imitation between children and their peers as a developmental process involving repetition and perspective-taking as well as flexibility and reciprocity. During childhood, this playful dynamic challenges developing visuospatial abilities and requires temporal coordination between partners. As such, we address syn-chrony as form of communication and social signal per se, that leads, from an experience of similarity, to the interconnection of minds. In this way, we argue that, from a developmental perspective, rhythmic interpersonal coordination through childhood imitative interactions serves as a precursor to higher-level social and cognitive abilities, such as theory of mind (TOM) and empathy. Finally, to clinically illustrate our idea, we focus on developmental coordination disorder (DCD), a condition characterized not only by learning difficulties, but also childhood deficits in motor imitation. We address the challenges faced by these children on an emotional and socio-interactional level through the perspective of their impairments in intra-and interpersonal synchrony.
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hal-02484396 , version 1 (19-02-2020)

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Jean Xavier, Julien Magnat, Alain Sherman, Soizic Gauthier, David Cohen, et al.. A developmental and clinical perspective of rhythmic interpersonal coordination: From mimicry toward the interconnection of minds. Journal of Physiology - Paris, 2016, 110 (4, Part B), pp.420-426. ⟨10.1016/j.jphysparis.2017.06.001⟩. ⟨hal-02484396⟩
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