Julio A D Salgado
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Dr. Julio A D Salgado investigates the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying body ownership and vicarious somatosensation—how we perceive our bodies as our own and experience sensations as if they were happening to others. His most-cited work, "Illusory Body Ownership Affects the Cortical Response to Vicarious Somatosensation" (2021, 22 citations), demonstrates that manipulating the sense of body ownership through multisensory illusions can alter cortical responses to observed touch on another person. This research bridges behavioral findings with neural evidence, revealing that the brain’s response to others’ experiences is modulated by our own bodily self-awareness. Dr. Salgado’s contributions advance understanding of empathy, social cognition, and the plasticity of self-representation, with implications for virtual reality, prosthetics, and disorders of body perception. His work has been influential in cognitive neuroscience, earning recognition for its innovative use of neuroimaging and behavioral paradigms. By elucidating how the brain constructs the self and connects with others, Dr. Salgado continues to shape research on the fundamental human experience of embodiment.
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