Santeri Yrttiaho
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About
Santeri Yrttiaho is a researcher at the forefront of developmental social neuroscience, exploring how humans—from infancy to adulthood—respond to social cues from both humans and humanoid robots. His work bridges psychophysiology and human-robot interaction, focusing on the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of eye contact. Yrttiaho’s key contributions include demonstrating that adults exhibit similar attention- and affect-related psychophysiological responses when making eye contact with a robot as with another person, with perceived intentionality playing a critical role. He has extended this line of inquiry to early development, showing that infants as young as 6–8 months old already differentiate between direct and averted gaze from both human and robotic agents. His most-cited paper, "Psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a humanoid robot" (2023, 6 citations), and his subsequent infant study (2024, 4 citations) have collectively advanced understanding of how social engagement mechanisms emerge and generalize. Yrttiaho’s work is notable for integrating developmental and comparative perspectives, offering insights into the origins of social attention and the design of socially responsive robots.
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