Anna‐Maria Kasparbauer
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Anna-Maria Kasparbauer investigates the neural mechanisms underlying how we perceive and interact with artificial agents, a critical area as humanoid robots become integrated into daily life. Her research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of action understanding, particularly how the human brain decodes goal-directed movements performed by non-human entities. In her most cited work, "Fronto-parietal coding of goal-directed actions performed by artificial agents" (2017, 15 citations), she demonstrated that the fronto-parietal network—key to processing human actions—also mediates our understanding of robotic movements. This finding has important implications for designing intuitive human-robot collaboration systems. Kasparbauer’s contributions bridge social neuroscience and robotics, exploring how brain activity patterns support the interpretation of artificial agents’ motor goals. Her work has been recognized for its relevance to both fundamental neuroscience and applied technology, offering insights into how humans can safely and effectively interact with autonomous systems. By examining the neural coding of actions across biological and artificial agents, she advances our understanding of shared representations in the brain and their role in social cognition.
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