Dr Isabella Colic

Overview

My main research interest concerns decision-making processes and how these unfold in the brain over time and which areas they involve. Decision-making mechanisms are usually studied with techniques such as behavioural experiments and fMRI, but I would like to uncover their characteristics by using magnetoencephalography as my primary methodology.

Undergraduate Education

I graduated summa cum laude in Psychological Sciences and Techniques at the University of Bologna in 2018 with a dissertation on episodic memory and episodic future thinking.

Postgraduate Education

In July 2020, I received my MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Trento and my thesis included both behavioural and MEG data about how the category of a distractor impacts visual working memory performance.

Awards/External Committees

• 2017: Scholarship awarded to meritorious students at the University of Bologna.
• 2017: Conference funding awarded to selected students at the University of Bologna to attend the VI Congress of the Italian Society of Neuropsychology in Palermo, Sicily.
• 2018: Conference funding awarded to selected students at the University of Bologna to attend the IV ESCAN conference in Leiden, Netherlands.

Employment

• From 2012 to Present: Fiction writer for In.edit Edizioni, a publishing agency based in Italy.