Dr Silvia Seghezzi
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr Silvia Seghezzi is a Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck, 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
Web profiles
Administrative responsibilities
- School of Psychological Sciences seminars coordinator
- UK Reproducibility Network Local Lead
- Chair of the UG exam board
Professional memberships
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Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
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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
ORCID
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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
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
PhD students:
Maia J. Armstrong
Mahnoor Tariq
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Topics in Cognition: Perception and Awareness
- Perspectives in Social Psychology
- Cognitive, Affective, and Social Neuroscience
- Social Psychology
- Academic Skills for Psychology
- Sensorimotor Processes and Attention
- Research Methods 1
- Academic Skills for PG Students
- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Seghezzi, Silvia and Yon, Daniel and Haggard, P. (2025) Voluntary action as problem-solving: an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex ISSN 1047-3211. (In Press)
- Seghezzi, Silvia and Parés-Pujolràs, E. and Haggard, P. (2025) Intentional binding decreases during learning: implications for sense of agency. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ISSN 1747-0218.
- Armstrong, Maia and Veleshnja, O. and Seghezzi, Silvia (2025) “I could have done otherwise”: the neural bases of counterfactual representations. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ISSN 0149-7634.