Bruno Berberian
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About
Bruno Berberian is a leading researcher at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and human-machine interaction, with a primary focus on the sense of agency—the subjective feeling of control over one’s actions and their outcomes. His work critically examines how this fundamental human experience is modulated when we collaborate not only with other people but also with increasingly human-like machines. Berberian’s major contributions include demonstrating that the predictive motor mechanisms underlying joint action with human peers are not engaged in the same way during interactions with automated systems, a finding that has profound implications for the design of collaborative robots. His highly cited 2019 study on the sense of agency in human-human versus human-robot joint action (47 citations) and his influential 2017 review (38 citations) have shaped the field by revealing a reduced sense of agency during human-machine interactions. More recently, his 2022 work using a full humanoid robot (13 citations) explores how a machine’s physical appearance and behavior can either enhance or disrupt this critical feeling of control, paving the way for more intuitive and psychologically seamless human-robot collaboration.
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- 1The sense of agency in human-human vs human-robot joint action47 citations · 2019
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