VALERIA SIMONELLI

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVIII
email: valeria.simonelli@uniroma1.it

supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Pezzulo
co-supervisor (2): Dr. Stefano Sdoia

Education and Work Experience:

PhD in Cognitive Science | 2022 – present
Sapienza Università di Roma
Advisor: Dr. Giovanni Pezzulo

Erasmus + traineeship | February 2022 - April 2022
University of Copenhagen
Keywords: TMS, EEG, EMG
Advisor: Prof. Mark Schram Christensen

Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience | 2020 - 2022
Sapienza Università di Roma
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Dissertation: “As a matter of fast: running expertise and perception of egospeed in a virtual environment”
Advisor: Prof. Gaspare Galati

Bachelor's degree in Psicologia e Processi sociali | 2017 - 2020
Sapienza Università di Roma
Grade: 108/110
Dissertation: “Prospettiva olistica sullo sviluppo della carriera atletica: l'esperienza del Dual Career negli atleti d'élite”
Advisor: Prof. Fabio Lucidi

High School Scientific Diploma | 2017
Liceo Bertrand Russell

Research products

11573/1751200 - 2025 - Structuring the environment nudges participants toward hierarchical over shortest path planning

Simonelli, V.; Nuzzi, D.; Lancia, G. L.; &Amp;, ; Pezzulo, G. - 01a Articolo in rivista

paper: CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION (Academic Press Incorporated:6277 Sea Harbor Drive:Orlando, FL 32887:(800)543-9534, (407)345-4100, EMAIL: ap@acad.com, INTERNET: http://www.idealibrary.com, Fax: (407)352-3445) pp. - - issn: 1053-8100 - wos: (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-105012205941 (1)

11573/1751182 - 2025 - Human foraging strategies flexibly adapt to resource distribution and time constraints

Simonelli, V.; Nuzzi, D.; Lancia, G. L.; Pezzulo, G. - 01a Articolo in rivista

paper: COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE (New York, N.Y. : Springer) pp. - - issn: 1531-135X - wos: WOS:001575778000001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-105016800402 (0)