Cristina Becchio
Biographic Data
| ID | 1835859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Becchio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Becchio |
| SIGNATURE | BECCHIO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6845-0521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
GPT-4o reads the mind in the eyes
Humans possess a sophisticated ability to read the mind in the eyes of other people. Here we tested whether this ability is also present in GPT-4o, a multimodal LLM. Using two versions of a widely used theory of mind test, the Reading the Mind in Eyes Test and the Multiracial Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, we found that GPT-4o outperformed humans in extracting mentalistic information from upright faces but underperformed humans when faces wer…
Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans
At the core of what defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people's mental states. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has led to intense debate about the possibility that these models exhibit behaviour that is indistinguishable from human behaviour in theory of mind tasks. Here we compare human and LLM performance on a comprehensive battery of measurements that aim to …
Understanding joint action
Joint actions are omnipresent, ranging from a handshake between two people to the coordination of groups of people playing in an orchestra. We are highly skilled at coordinating our actions with those of others to reach common goals and rely on this ability throughout our daily lives. What are the social, cognitive and neural processes underlying this ability? How do others around us influence our task representations? How does joint action influ…
Decision making for sustainable urban energy planning
Of comfort and cost
Temporal perception in joint action
When seeing is more than looking
Objects in the environment have a perceived value that can be changed through social influence. A subtle way to influence object evaluation is through eye gaze: Objects looked at by others are perceived as more likable than objects that are not looked at. In 3 experiments, we directly tested the hypothesis that this liking effect depends on the processing of the intentional relation between other's eye gaze and the object being looked at. To this…
Does the intention to communicate affect action kinematics
Contents Vol. 51, 2008
The Non-Problem of the Other Minds
In this paper, we combine neurological and developmental evidences in order to differentiate between two levels of sharing: dyadic sharing, virtually present from birth and depending on the activation of shared representation, and triadic sharing, requiring that agents not only share a common representation, but also represent complementary perspectives. Mirror neurons are proposed as a fundamental mechanism to account for dyadic sharing, explain…
The case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
How the brain understands intention
The ontology of neglect
Wittgenstein running
Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans
At the core of what defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people's mental states. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has led to intense debate about the possibility that these models exhibit behaviour that is indistinguishable from human behaviour in theory of mind tasks. Here we compare human and LLM performance on a comprehensive battery of measurements that aim to …
Of comfort and cost
Decision making for sustainable urban energy planning
Wittgenstein running
The ontology of neglect
How the brain understands intention
The case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Contents Vol. 51, 2008
The Non-Problem of the Other Minds
In this paper, we combine neurological and developmental evidences in order to differentiate between two levels of sharing: dyadic sharing, virtually present from birth and depending on the activation of shared representation, and triadic sharing, requiring that agents not only share a common representation, but also represent complementary perspectives. Mirror neurons are proposed as a fundamental mechanism to account for dyadic sharing, explain…
Does the intention to communicate affect action kinematics
When seeing is more than looking
Objects in the environment have a perceived value that can be changed through social influence. A subtle way to influence object evaluation is through eye gaze: Objects looked at by others are perceived as more likable than objects that are not looked at. In 3 experiments, we directly tested the hypothesis that this liking effect depends on the processing of the intentional relation between other's eye gaze and the object being looked at. To this…
Temporal perception in joint action
Of comfort and cost
Decision making for sustainable urban energy planning
Understanding joint action
Joint actions are omnipresent, ranging from a handshake between two people to the coordination of groups of people playing in an orchestra. We are highly skilled at coordinating our actions with those of others to reach common goals and rely on this ability throughout our daily lives. What are the social, cognitive and neural processes underlying this ability? How do others around us influence our task representations? How does joint action influ…
Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans
At the core of what defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people's mental states. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has led to intense debate about the possibility that these models exhibit behaviour that is indistinguishable from human behaviour in theory of mind tasks. Here we compare human and LLM performance on a comprehensive battery of measurements that aim to …
GPT-4o reads the mind in the eyes
Humans possess a sophisticated ability to read the mind in the eyes of other people. Here we tested whether this ability is also present in GPT-4o, a multimodal LLM. Using two versions of a widely used theory of mind test, the Reading the Mind in Eyes Test and the Multiracial Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, we found that GPT-4o outperformed humans in extracting mentalistic information from upright faces but underperformed humans when faces wer…
Psychology (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)