Sara Coppi
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Sara Coppi investigates the fascinating intersection of motor imagery, multisensory integration, and body perception. Her research primarily explores how imagined movements and visual feedback can alter our sense of bodily ownership, with a particular focus on the mechanisms underlying the rubber hand illusion. In her most-cited work, Coppi demonstrated that synchronous motor imagery combined with visual feedback of finger movement can elicit the moving rubber hand illusion, though primarily in individuals susceptible to such illusions. This finding provides compelling evidence that imagined sensory stimuli can be integrated with real sensory information across different modalities, reshaping our perception of external events through cross-modal multisensory integration. Her work, already garnering attention with 9 citations since its 2023 publication, offers critical insights into how the brain constructs our sense of body ownership and agency. Coppi’s contributions are particularly valuable for understanding the neural basis of body representation and have implications for developing therapeutic interventions for conditions involving disrupted body perception, such as phantom limb pain or body dysmorphia.
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