Aleksandra Kupferberg
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Total Citations
253
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About
Aleksandra Kupferberg is a leading researcher at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, social robotics, and comparative psychology. Her work fundamentally explores how humans and non-human primates perceive, understand, and interact with both biological and artificial agents. A central theme is the use of motor interference—the involuntary disruption of one’s own movements when observing incongruent actions—as an objective measure of social acceptance and action-perception coupling. Her highly cited 2011 paper (68 citations) demonstrated that biological movement increases acceptance of humanoid robots as interaction partners, while her 2012 study (53 citations) showed that motor interference depends on the perceived similarity between observer and agent. Kupferberg has also made significant contributions to understanding social learning, providing evidence that even marmoset monkeys rely on intention attribution for basic social learning (46 citations). Her work extends to exploring how the fronto-parietal system encodes goals of artificial agents, informing the design of intuitive human-robot collaboration. By bridging insights from primate cognition, human motor control, and robotics, Kupferberg’s research provides a foundational framework for building socially competent machines that can be accepted as genuine partners in joint action.
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- 5Spatiotemporal Movement Planning and Rapid Adaptation for Manual Interaction18 citations · 2013
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- 7Video Observation of Humanoid Robot Movements Elicits Motor Interference5 citations · 2009
- 8Accessing robot acceptance by motor interference3 citations · 2011