Mohamad Arif Fahmi Bin Ismail
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Mohamad Arif Fahmi Bin Ismail is a leading researcher in cognitive neuroscience, specializing in the mechanisms of self-perception, particularly the senses of ownership and agency over artificial body parts. His major contributions center on the "Robot Hand Illusion" (RoHI), a paradigm he developed to extend the classic rubber hand illusion into the domain of motor control. By introducing delayed visual feedback, he demonstrated that the brain’s sense of controlling a robot hand (agency) and feeling it as one’s own (ownership) can be dissociated, with temporal synchrony being critical for both. His most cited work (2016, 99 citations) established this foundational framework. Notably, his subsequent studies (2018, 2019) used functional neuroimaging to pinpoint the inferior parietal lobe as a key hub for visuo-motor integration in this illusion, revealing how the brain resolves conflicts between movement and visual input. This research has profound implications for understanding body representation in robotics, prosthetics, and virtual reality, as well as clinical conditions like phantom limb pain. Ismail’s work elegantly bridges experimental psychology and neuroscience, offering a compelling window into how our brain constructs the experience of "me" in action.
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