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Using robots to probe how people react to simple behaviours

Neuroscientist Agnieszka Wykowska investigates how the human brain reacts to embodied artificial intelligence.
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Agnieszka Wykowska in her lab at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy.

Agnieszka Wykowska is a cognitive neuroscientist at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. Credit: Mattia Balsamini for Nature

As a cognitive neuroscientist, I’ve always been fascinated by the human brain. As the photograph shows, I work with robots — at the intersection of neuroscience and robotics. I’m interested in how the brain processes social signals from robots and humans.

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Nature 583, 652 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02155-1

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