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Amanda Seccia Office: Green Hall 510 Phone: (773) 702-1562 Email Interests:

Amanda aims to bridge the fields of psychology and education. Her works focuses on discovering and testing teaching strategies that can be used in authentic learning environments.
Post Doctoral Scholar

Amanda received her B.A. in Psychology from Wilkes University in 2015 and her Ph.D. in the Department of Learning and Instruction at the University at Buffalo (UB) in 2021. Amanda managed the Pedagogy and Practice Lab at UB where she oversaw use of neuroimaging and psychophysiological measurement tools like functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electroencephalography (EEG). Amanda’s work focused on bridging neuropsychology and education. She investigated epistemologies, roles, and knowledge bases that contribute to the disconnect between neuroscience and education. Amanda’s dissertation examined how researcher-practitioner partnerships help bridge the research-practice gap. She is interested in collaborating with educational practitioners to make connections from neuroscience research to comprehensive and transformational teaching practices. Amanda is a postdoctoral scholar in the ENL and Goldin-Meadow labs. Currently, her projects involve using fNIRS to study brain activity in children when learning a math lesson using nonverbal communication.