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Andrea Serino is a leading researcher in cognitive neuroscience, specializing in the mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness, sensorimotor integration, and the neural basis of psychosis. Her work bridges experimental psychology, virtual reality, and haptic robotics to explore how the brain constructs the sense of self, ownership, and agency. Serino’s major contributions include demonstrating that sensorimotor conflicts can induce illusory states such as the feeling of an apparition (148 citations), a paradigm that has been extended to study auditory misattribution in early psychosis (44 citations) and thought insertion in psychotic disorders (20 citations). She has also shown that neuromuscular electrical stimulation can restore upper limb sensory-motor functions and body representations in chronic stroke survivors (45 citations), highlighting the translational impact of her research. Her use of combined virtual reality and haptic robotics to induce space- and movement-invariant sensorimotor adaptation (16 citations) offers new tools for rehabilitation. Serino’s work is notable for its innovative integration of robotics and neuroscience, providing both fundamental insights into self-awareness and practical applications for clinical populations.