Pasquale Cardellicchio
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About
Pasquale Cardellicchio investigates the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying social attention and human-robot interaction. His research focuses on how communicative gaze—such as mutual or averted eye contact—modulates attentional orienting, and he has made key contributions by disentangling the neural substrates of this process. In his most-cited work (2023, 4 citations), Cardellicchio demonstrated that the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), rather than the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ), drives the modulatory effects of communicative gaze on attention, clarifying a long-standing debate in social neuroscience. This work has been cited for its precise experimental design and implications for understanding social cognition. Additionally, his 2022 study (3 citations) explores how perceptions of a robot’s mental states influence collaborative task performance, revealing sex-based differences in human-robot interaction. This research is pivotal for designing socially adept robots. Cardellicchio’s work bridges cognitive neuroscience and robotics, with his findings informing both theoretical models of social attention and practical applications in human-robot collaboration.
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