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Amelia Mañá is a professor in the Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education at the University of Valencia. She is also a researcher in the Interdisciplinary Research Structure on Reading (ERI-Reading). Her academic background includes the degrees of Doctor and Bachelor in Psychology and Psychopedagogy from the University of Valencia. Since 2012 she teaches in the field of Developmental Psychology and Special Educational Needs, mainly in the Degrees of Teacher of Infant and Primary Education and in the Master in Special Education. His research has been devoted mainly to the study of cognitive processes related to reading, specifically with the processes of self-regulation of comprehension and motivational aspects that affect the process of comprehension and learning from textual information. She has participated in several projects related to the evaluation and training of comprehension processes in primary and secondary students as well as in students with neurodevelopmental disorders.