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@MISC{Krueger12reviewedby:,
author = {Joel Krueger and John Michael and Chris Frith and Wellcome Trust Centre},
title = {Reviewed by:},
year = {2012}
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Abstract
The authors contributed equally to this work. Social cognition researchers have become increasingly interested in the ways that behavioral, physiological, and neural coupling facilitate social interaction and interpersonal understanding. We distinguish two ways of conceptualizing the role of such coupling processes in social cognition: strong and moderate interactionism. According to strong interactionism (SI), low-level coupling processes are alternatives to higher-level individual cognitive processes; the former at least sometimes render the latter superfluous. Moderate interactionism (MI) on the other hand, is an integrative approach. Its guiding assumption is that higher-level cognitive processes are likely to have been shaped by the need to coordinate, modulate, and extract information from low-level coupling processes. In this paper, we present a case study on Möbius Syndrome (MS) in order to contrast SI and MI. We show how MS—a form of congenital bilateral facial paralysis—can be a fruitful source of insight for research exploring the relation between high-level cognition and low-level coupling. Lacking a capacity for facial expression, individuals with MS are
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moderate interactionism low-level coupling process high-level cognition low-level coupling case study bius syndrome strong interactionism social cognition researcher interpersonal understanding congenital bilateral facial paralysis extract information facial expression fruitful source integrative approach higher-level individual cognitive process facilitate social interaction higher-level cognitive process coupling process social cognition
