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Emmanuele Tidoni’s research lies at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, human-robot interaction, and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), with a focus on restoring agency and social connection for people with spinal cord injury (SCI). His pioneering work demonstrates how multisensory feedback—particularly audio-visual cues—can dramatically improve BCI performance, enabling users to control humanoid robots as intuitively as their own bodies. In a landmark 2016 study (56 citations), Tidoni showed that both healthy individuals and those with SCI could cooperate with virtual and robotic agents using a P300 BCI, paving the way for embodied telepresence systems. His investigations into tendon vibration (26 citations) revealed that illusory arm movements can be evoked in SCI patients, offering new avenues for motor rehabilitation. More recently, Tidoni has explored the social cognition of humanoid robots, finding that human—but not robotic—gaze facilitates action prediction (2022), and that body form modulates how we anticipate artificial behavior (2023). His 2024 work challenges assumptions about anthropomorphism, asking whether humanoid robots are perceived as “mindless mannequins.” With over 190 citations across these studies, Tidoni’s research is shaping the future of assistive robotics and BCI-mediated interaction, bridging the gap between neural control and social embodiment.