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Agnieszka Wykowska is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology as significant subfields. Additional areas of expertise include Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Safety Research.

The scientist's main topics of investigation encompass:

  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Agnieszka Wykowska has published extensively, with frequent appearances in the following publication venues:

  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Scientific Reports
  • Science Robotics
  • Technology Mind and Behavior

Key recent papers include:

  • "Social Robots to Test Flexibility of Human Social Cognition" (2020), International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "Risk Perception and Media in Shaping Protective Behaviors: Insights From the Early Phase of COVID-19 Italian Outbreak" (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The human brain reveals resting state activity patterns that are predictive of biases in attitudes toward robots" (2020), Science Robotics
  • "The personality of anthropomorphism: How the need for cognition and the need for closure define attitudes and anthropomorphic attributions toward robots" (2021), Computers in Human Behavior
  • "Robots as Mirrors of the Human Mind" (2021), Current Directions in Psychological Science

Agnieszka Wykowska has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Davide De Tommaso
  • Serena Marchesi
  • Davide Ghiglino
  • Francesca Ciardo
  • Kyveli Kompatsiari

The scientist has also contributed to academic books, notably a publication titled "Social Robotics" released in 2021 by Springer Science+Business Media.

Best Publications

  • Robots As Intentional Agents: Using Neuroscientific Methods to Make Robots Appear More Social.

    Eva Wiese;Giorgio Metta;Agnieszka Wykowska

  • I See What You Mean: How Attentional Selection Is Shaped by Ascribing Intentions to Others

    Eva Wiese;Agnieszka Wykowska;Jan Zwickel;Hermann J. Müller;Hermann J. Müller

  • Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots

    Serena Marchesi;Davide Ghiglino;Davide Ghiglino;Francesca Ciardo;Jairo Perez-Osorio

  • Embodied artificial agents for understanding human social cognition

    Agnieszka Wykowska;Agnieszka Wykowska;Thierry Chaminade;Gordon Cheng

  • Beliefs about the Minds of Others Influence How We Process Sensory Information

    Agnieszka Wykowska;Agnieszka Wykowska;Eva Wiese;Eva Wiese;Aaron Prosser;Aaron Prosser;Hermann J. Müller;Hermann J. Müller

  • How you move is what you see: action planning biases selection in visual search

    Agnieszka Wykowska;Anna Schubö;Bernhard Hommel

  • From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction

    Emily S. Cross;Ruud Hortensius;Agnieszka Wykowska

  • Adopting the intentional stance toward natural and artificial agents

    Jairo Perez-Osorio;Agnieszka Wykowska

  • Examining joint attention with the use of humanoid robots-A new approach to study fundamental mechanisms of social cognition

    Pauline Chevalier;Kyveli Kompatsiari;Francesca Ciardo;Agnieszka Wykowska

  • It’s in the Eyes: The Engaging Role of Eye Contact in HRI

    Kyveli Kompatsiari;Kyveli Kompatsiari;Francesca Ciardo;Vadim Tikhanoff;Giorgio Metta;Giorgio Metta

  • The personality of anthropomorphism: How the need for cognition and the need for closure define attitudes and anthropomorphic attributions toward robots

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  • iCub: The not-yet-finished story of building a robot child

    Lorenzo Natale;Chiara Bartolozzi;Daniele Pucci;Agnieszka Wykowska

  • Social Robots to Test Flexibility of Human Social Cognition

    Agnieszka Wykowska

  • Attribution of intentional agency towards robots reduces one's own sense of agency.

    Francesca Ciardo;Frederike Beyer;Davide De Tommaso;Agnieszka Wykowska

  • On the role of eye contact in gaze cueing.

    Kyveli Kompatsiari;Kyveli Kompatsiari;Francesca Ciardo;Vadim Tikhanoff;Giorgio Metta;Giorgio Metta

  • On the temporal relation of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms during guidance of attention

    Agnieszka Wykowska;Anna Schubö

  • Risk Perception and Media in Shaping Protective Behaviors: Insights From the Early Phase of COVID-19 Italian Outbreak.

    Benedetta Vai;Silvia Cazzetta;Davide Ghiglino;Lorenzo Parenti

  • Irrelevant singletons in visual search do not capture attention but can produce nonspatial filtering costs

    Agnieszka Wykowska;Anna Schubö

  • The human brain reveals resting state activity patterns that are predictive of biases in attitudes toward robots

    Francesco Bossi;Francesco Bossi;Cesco Willemse;Jacopo Cavazza;Serena Marchesi

  • Detecting pop-out targets in contexts of varying homogeneity : Investigating homogeneity coding with event-related brain potentials (ERPs)

    Anna Schubö;Agnieszka Wykowska;Hermann J. Müller

  • Robots as Mirrors of the Human Mind

    Agnieszka Wykowska

  • Believing androids : fMRI activation in the right temporo-parietal junction is modulated by ascribing intentions to non-human agents

    Ceylan Özdem;Eva Wiese;Agnieszka Wykowska;Hermann J. Müller

  • Humans are Well Tuned to Detecting Agents Among Non-agents: Examining the Sensitivity of Human Perception to Behavioral Characteristics of Intentional Systems

    Agnieszka Wykowska;Agnieszka Wykowska;Jasmin Kajopoulos;Miguel Obando-Leitón;Sushil Singh Chauhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann J. Müller
Hermann J. Müller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Anna Schubö
Anna Schubö Philipp University of Marburg
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Gordon Cheng
Gordon Cheng Technical University of Munich
Bernhard Hommel
Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University
Shuzhi Sam Ge
Shuzhi Sam Ge National University of Singapore
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Emily S. Cross
Emily S. Cross University of Glasgow
Oussama Khatib
Oussama Khatib Stanford University
Lorenzo Natale
Lorenzo Natale Italian Institute of Technology

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