The primary ETH expertise is in the general neuropsychological and psychological assessment of cognitive and affective processes, the clinical evaluation of qualitative and quantitative aspects of phantom limb sensation (i.e., the feeling that a limb is still present despite its physical loss) and the factors underlying the prosthesis embodiment (i.e. the feeling that an external device could be a surrogate of one’s body part).

ETH Projects aim at gaining deep knowledge on the neuropsychological and multisensory neurophysiological mechanisms promoting human acceptability, trust, sense of ownership and agency (i.e., the feeling that a robotic device belongs to a human and the feeling of being in control of this device, respectively) towards mechanical devices. To this ambitious goal, ETH combines multimodal methods such as virtual reality technology for realistic simulation of human-machine interactions, eye tracker for the gaze behaviour analysis and ad-hoc created behavioural paradigms. Moreover, ETH supports the INTELLIMAN projects with advanced univariate and multivariate statistical methods for multimodal data analysis.