Kiera O'Neil

Dr. Kiera O'Neil holds a Ph.D. in Psychology & Neuroscience from Dalhousie University. She has expertise in cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on how experience shapes the neural systems underlying language and memory. Her recent work has focused on how early blindness impacts the language and working memory networks in the brain, the psychosocial factors that affect remote-work productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the behavioural and brain correlates of mind-wandering during technology use. She currently works in the Developmental Psychobiology Research Centre at Mount Saint Vincent University, which investigates how early life experiences influence biological, psychological, and social development, particularly the impact of early experiences on the brain and behaviour in both parents and children, beginning during the prenatal period and spanning to later childhood.