Amy E. Lindsey, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Amy Lindsey is an associate professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department at Utica College in Utica, NY. She has an undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s degree in instruction and learning from the University of Pittsburgh. Her Ph.D. is in Psychology from Vanderbilt University where she studied retinal regeneration and psychophysical measurement of visual behavior at the Vanderbilt University Vision Research Center.

Her areas of expertise are psychophysics, neural regeneration, and visual behavior. Dr. Lindsey’s teaching interests include sensation and perception, research methods, evolutionary psychology, learning theories, and psychobiology. Dr. Lindsey’s primary research interest is the assessment of sensory and motor function in central nervous system injury or disease. She has published research studies in peer-reviewed journals including Visual Neuroscience, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Neurotoxicity Research, and Brain Research.

She is a member of the American Psychological Association, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Vision Science Society, Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Association for Psychological Science. She has served two three-year terms as an elected member of the governing board of the New York State chapter of the Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired. Dr. Lindsey serves on the review board for the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness.

In addition to teaching and research interests, Dr. Lindsey is an elected member of the Utica Lions Club and volunteers as a career mentor with the American Foundation for the Blind.