Dr Silvia Seghezzi

Overview

Office hours

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Qualifications

• PhD in Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicocca / UCL University College London , 2021
• MSc in Clinical & Neuropsychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, 2016
• BA in Psychological Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 2014

Web profiles

• Twitter

Administrative responsibilities

• UK Reproducibility Network Local Lead
• School of Psychological Sciences seminars coordinator

Professional memberships

• Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)

• Psychologist Professional register A-20829, Ordine degli psicologi della Lombardia 

Honours and awards

• EPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Experimental Psychology Society, September 2022
• Templeton Postdoctoral Fellowship, John Templeton Foundation, Fetzer Institute, September 2021
• Research prize, European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, September 2019

ORCID

0000-0002-6908-5984

Research

Research interests

• Neurocognitive processes of voluntary motor control
• Neural bases of sense of agency and conscious experiences
• Neurophylosophy of Free Will

Research overview

My research focuses on voluntary action control, investigating how goals are represented in the brain, their flexibility, and how they are translated into plans and sequences of movement. 

I am particularly interested in the conscious experiences associated with goal-directed actions. These include intentionality—how our intentions to move arise and become accessible to consciousness—and the sense of agency—the experience of being in control and responsible for our actions and the outcomes they produce in the external world.

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Sensorimotor Processes and Attention (PSYC003H7)
• Cognitive, Affective, and Social Neuroscience (PSYC004H7)
• Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (PSYC069H6)
• Research Methods 1 (SCPS177H5)