Valeria Becattini

Valeria Becattini holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Florence and a M.A. in Cognitive Science at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University. She is interested in embodied cognitive science, contemplative research, and predictive processing. She conducts empirical and theoretical research on meditation and sense of self, in collaboration with University of Lisbon, McGill University, and the University of Toronto, appearing in programs like the “ActInf GuestStream” and the “Contemplative Science Podcast” of Monash University. She is also organizing mindfulness workshops, and currently the program chair of the annual conferences of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind.

Graduate

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany: M.A. in Cognitive Science

Undergraduate

Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy: B.A. in Philosophy

Representative Publications

• Becattini, V., Lifshitz, M., & Miller, M. (2025, January 12). Learning to Attenuate Myself: A Predictive Processing Account of Body-Scan Meditation and the Dissolution of Bodily Boundaries. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gcjth
• Becattini, V., Severs, L., (2024, July 24). Extended agency and adaptive control in technologically enhanced and design-centred environments. https://osf.io/g42db/files/osfstorage/66fec4a3cd0d052747a20630
• Almeida, I., Becattini, V., Guendelman, S., Leleu, A., Barnby, J. M., & Ciaunica, A. (2024, February 8). Disintegrated Self in Time: The Effect of Depersonalisation Experiences on Time Perspective. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3qcuw