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Previous research has revealed a potential relationship between SMS abilities and physical activity, with proposed links to underlying inner-brain cognitive processes. However, it needs to be explored that whether good aerobic fitness will have a strong SMS ability, its internal mechanism, and the inter-brain mechanism. In the present study, we recruited 23 dyads of long-distance runners as the experimental group and 22 dyads of non-physical education major students as the control group. Participants were required to perform a dyadic finger-tapping synchronization task. During task performance, neural activities were recorded in frontal area by the functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based hyperscanning approach. The results revealed that the experimental group demonstrated superior SMS abilities in the seconds-scale task. This advantage was attributed to their enhanced stability. 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