Libera Siciliano is Associate Professor of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Human Sciences at Link Campus University. In 2016, she graduated with honors in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychological Rehabilitation from Sapienza University of Rome, where she subsequently attained her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. She specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy at the School of Cognitive Psychotherapy (SPC) in Grosseto.
From 2014 to 2025, she continuously carried out research activities at the Department of Psychology of Sapienza University of Rome and at the Laboratory for the Study of Ataxia of the I.R.C.C.S. Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome, in collaboration with the Neuroimaging Laboratory at the same institution. During this period, she collaborated on a regular basis with various research groups belonging to national and international institutions and universities. He participated in several research projects funded by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of University and Research.
During her research period at Sapienza University of Rome, she gained extensive experience in the field of education as a teaching assistant, giving supplementary lessons on various topics in the area of cognitive neuroscience. From 2022 to 2024, she held the position of contract professor at the Niccolò Cusano University – Telematica Roma, and at the University of Rome Tor Vergata for the academic year 2023/2024, teaching courses in the macro-areas of Psychobiology and Neuropsychology.
She authored several publications in international and indexed scientific journals; she regularly participates as a speaker at national and international conferences and symposiums; she is an affiliate member of the Italian Psychological Association.
Research interests lie in the field of cognitive and affective neuroscience, with a particular focus on exploring the contribution of the cerebellum and cortico-cerebellar circuits to cognitive, emotional, and social processes, as well as the predictive mechanisms underlying them. Through an integrated approach combining neuropsychological methods, structural and functional neuroimaging techniques, and neurophysiological methodologies (in particular, brain neuromodulation techniques), her scientific activity explores the neural bases of these functions in neurotypical populations and in neurological and psychiatric conditions. In line with these interests, she has gained extensive experience in the acquisition, processing, and analysis of neuropsychological, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological data.
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