Caterina Ansuini
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Caterina Ansuini is a leading cognitive neuroscientist whose research explores the neural and behavioral underpinnings of action understanding and social interaction. Her work bridges experimental psychology, neuroscience, and robotics to investigate how humans perceive and predict others’ intentions through movement. A key contribution is her pioneering study, "Investigating the ability to read others’ intentions using humanoid robots" (2015, 48 citations), which demonstrated that subtle kinematic differences in action execution allow observers to infer underlying intentions—even when actions are performed by robots. This finding has profound implications for human-robot interaction and social cognition. Ansuini’s research has been instrumental in showing that intention-reading is not limited to biological agents, opening new avenues for designing more intuitive artificial systems. Her work is widely cited in fields ranging from motor control to developmental psychology, and she is recognized for advancing our understanding of how movement kinematics encode social information. Through her innovative experiments, Ansuini continues to shape how researchers think about the embodied nature of social perception and the potential for machines to engage in meaningful social exchanges.
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- 1Investigating the ability to read others’ intentions using humanoid robots48 citations · 2015