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Dr Silvia Seghezzi

Positions held:
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Sciences
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Dr Silvia Seghezzi is a Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú, University of London, where she founded the Brain in Action Lab in January 2024. Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying voluntary action, decision-making, and counterfactual thinking, using a combination of behavioural paradigms, EEG, and fMRI.

    She previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (2021—2023), supported by both a John Templeton Foundation Fellowship and an EPS Postdoctoral Fellowship.

    Dr Seghezzi trained at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she obtained a BSc in Psychological Sciences (2014) and an MSc in Clinical and Neuropsychology (2016). In 2017, she qualified as a Clinical Psychologist and began her PhD in Neuroscience, jointly conducted between Milano-Bicocca and UCL’s Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging.

    Office hours

    Wednesday 10-12 AM


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    Administrative responsibilities

    • School of Psychological Sciences seminars coordinator
    • UK Reproducibility Network Local Lead
    • Chair of the UG exam board

    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

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  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Neurocognitive processes of voluntary motor control
    • Counterfactual thinking
    • Neural bases of sense of agency and conscious experiences

    Research clusters and groups

    • PI,
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions within ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú:
    1

    PhD students:

    Maia J. Armstrong

    Mahnoor Tariq 

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Quantitative Research Methods
    • Academic Skills for PG Students
    • Academic Skills for Psychology
    • Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
    • Topics in Cognition: Memory and Thinking
    • Social Psychology
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Seghezzi, Silvia and Armstrong, M. and Haggard, P. (2027) . Cognition 278, ISSN 0010-0277.
    • Mazor, Matan and Seghezzi, Silvia and Manohar, S. (2026) . Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 187 (106725), ISSN 0149-7634.
    • Seghezzi, Silvia and Haggard, P. (2026) . eNeuro 13 (5), ISSN 2373-2822.
    • Seghezzi, Silvia and Yon, Daniel and Haggard, P. (2025) . Cerebral Cortex 35 (11), ISSN 1047-3211.
    • Seghezzi, Silvia and Parés-Pujolràs, E. and Haggard, P. (2025) . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ISSN 1747-0218.
    • Armstrong, Maia and Veleshnja, O. and Seghezzi, Silvia (2025) . Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ISSN 0149-7634.