Angelo Gemignani
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About
Angelo Gemignani is a leading researcher at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, human-machine interaction, and surgical robotics. His work fundamentally explores how the brain constructs a sense of agency and embodiment when operating remote tools, with profound implications for teleoperation and robotic-assisted surgery. In a landmark 2024 systematic review (13 citations), he demonstrated that agency—the feeling of controlling one’s actions—is central to skills learning in virtual environments, as it enhances confidence and motor congruence. His 2023 review (10 citations) broke new ground by showing how sensory substitution, where surgeons use visual cues to compensate for missing haptic feedback, can dramatically improve robotic surgical performance. Gemignani’s experimental work on stimulating the right temporoparietal junction (2024, 8 citations) has directly linked specific brain regions to the sensations of embodiment and telepresence, offering a neural target for enhancing remote operation. Beyond surgery, his integrated approach to motor activity in aging (2014, 8 citations) connects cognitive decline with gait impairment, bridging basic neuroscience with real-world quality of life. With a career spanning foundational mechanisms of body representation to applied surgical training, Gemignani’s research is shaping how humans interact with—and feel through—machines.
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