Ms Isabella Colic
Graduate Tutor
- ColicI@cardiff.ac.uk
- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ
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.
Research
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.
Research Topics and Related Papers
- Visual working memory and distractibility(Papers in preparation)
Teaching
I am a postgraduate teaching assistant for first year students attending the BSc in Psychology. My main responsibilities include seminar presentations, essay marking and assisting on exams.